Sentences with phrase «of gun injuries»

If guns are bad, aren't a good deterrent to crime, and can get the owner shot (which, if you discount suicides, barely registers as a single percentage of gun injuries), why then do police and the military have them?

«Horrific mass killings receive the most media attention, but as can be seen by the numbers, they only represent a small portion of the total costs - human and medical - of gun injuries in the United States,» said David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center in Boston, who was not involved with the study.

Not exact matches

While Remington maintains that the guns are safe, the lawsuits linked the guns «to hundreds of serious injuries and at least two - dozen deaths,» CNBC reports.

The study ascribed this dearth of research to restrictions — namely a 21 - year - old congressional appropriations bill called the «Dickey Amendment» that stipulated «none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.»

Later Tuesday, the Broward Sheriff's Office filed a petition for a «temporary risk protection order» under the state's new gun law, identifying Zachary Cruz as someone who «poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to himself or others by having a firearm.»

We were saddened to learn of the passing of a young man and the injury of two others as a result of gun violence at our store on North Broadway in Chicago.

It's difficult to separate these changes from long - term trends (especially since gun homicides have generally been on the decline for decades now), but a review of the evidence by RAND linked milder gun control measures, including background checks, to reduced injuries and deaths — and that means these measures likely saved lives.

In fact known criminals account for only a small percentage of gun murders and injuries.

Obviously with the likes of Danny Welbeck and Sanchez set to return from injury in the not - so - distant future, Wenger may opt to stick with his guns.

Possession football, leaving it late ti find goals, an utterly confused defence after taking a lead, fighting to salvage draws agains weaker teams, reliance on one or two special players to bale us out, poor timing of substitutions, the frequent long term injury list, quality players played out of position, referees gunning us and yet our players commit the kind of fouls leading to cards and penalties.

New Manchester United manager, David Moyes once admitted that playing against Manchester City was like «going into a gun fight with a knife» and it certainly felt like that for Newcastle against the Citizens, as they had several injuries ahead of the game and star man, Yohan Cabaye, was the subject of a late # 10m bid from Arsenal and was therefore not in the right frame of mind to play according to an angry Alan Pardew.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) states that the best way to prevent gun injury or death in kids is to never have a gun in the home.

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Embattled leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El - Zakzaky was flown out of Nigeria for treatment of gun shot injuries he suffered during the encounter between his supporters and members of the Nigerian Army last year, multiple security sources told Vanguard in Abuja yesterday.

By having this insurance policy in place, innocent victims of gun - related accidents and violence will be compensated for the medical care for their injuries.»

On his part, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni said 20 of the kidnappers died during gun duel with security forces, while eight policemen and four civilian volunteers sustained injuries.

He said suspected militants engaged the troops in a gun duel, leading to casualties on the side of the militants, while others escaped with gunshot injuries.

«At the end of the encounter, one of the suspects was gunned down while others numbering about seven escaped with various degrees of gunshot injuries.

Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni has disclosed that 20 of the kidnappers of six Epe Students were killed during gun duel with security forces, while eight policemen and four civilian volunteers sustained injuries.

It was gathered that attempts made by the armed robbers to escape after noticing the superior fire power of the policemen proved futile as three of them were gunned down while the fourth sustained gunshot injuries.

Yet data on skeletal injuries of 31 of Custer's soldiers indicate only three committed suicide by firing a gun into their head, Mielke reported.

«Our results suggest an association between regional gun laws and firearm - related injuries in children,» says Monika K. Goyal, M.D., M.S.C.E., director of research within Children's Division of Emergency Medicine and senior author of the poster.

Regions of the United States with the strictest gun laws also have the fewest emergency department visits for pediatric firearm - related injuries, according to a new study by Children's National Health System researchers.

«Future research work should seek to elucidate the association of specific gun laws with the incidence rates of pediatric firearm - related injuries,» says Shilpa Patel, M.D., M.P.H., an assistant professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at Children's National and co-author of the poster.

Among other steps, legislators added a directive in the bill that funds CDC's injury prevention center that said «none of the funds... may be used to advocate or promote gun control.»

Report calls for better data on ownership of firearms, gun - related deaths and injuries, and exploration of link between violence and media

Doing so would have treated a gun as a consumer product, like a power drill or a lawn mower or a food processor, that carries with it a certain risk of accidental injury or death that must be weighed against its benefits.

Looking forward, the RAND team recommends that the federal government increase funding for gun research to levels comparable to federal research investments in other significant causes of death and injury, such as automobile accidents.

The strongest available evidence supports the conclusion that laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of children reduce firearm self - injuries, suicides and unintended injuries to children.

Out of the thousands of studies evaluated, the RAND analysis identified 62 that investigated the causal effects of gun polices on any of the outcomes RAND investigated, including those of concern to gun owners and the gun industry, as well as violence, suicide and injury.

RAND researchers evaluated thousands of studies to assess the available evidence for the effect of 13 common gun policies on a range of outcomes, including injuries and deaths, mass shootings, defensive gun use, and participation in hunting and sport shooting.

A new study conducted by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital investigated sports - and recreation - related eye injuries during a 23 - year period and found a slight decrease in eye injuries overall; however, the rate of eye injury associated with non-powder guns (including BB, pellet and paintball guns) increased by almost 170 %.

While the overall rate of sports - and recreation - related eye injury decreased slightly during the study period, the rate of injury associated with non-powder guns increased by nearly 170 %.

«Time is truly of the essence when it comes to certain kinds of injuries and our analysis suggests that, for penetrating injuries such as knife and gun wounds, it might be better to just get to a trauma center as soon as possible in whatever way possible,» says Elliott Haut, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of surgery and emergency medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the paper's senior author.

In an abstract presented Oct. 27 at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, researchers also identified a link between the percentage of homes with guns and the prevalence of child gunshot injuries.

As chief of the Section for Trauma & Acute Care Surgery and founding director of the University of Chicago Medicine Trauma Center, Rogers will build an interdisciplinary team of specialists to treat patients who suffer injury from life - threatening events such as car crashes, serious falls and gun violence.

Guns, knives and hand - to - hand combat are unleashed in a variety of scenarios, with death and serious injury left in their path.

- Pervasive portrayals of hand - to - hand, weapons, and gun violence, with blood, physical assault, injury and wound detail.

Violence: C Teens carrying guns; two drive - by shootings; car catches on fire; fist - fighting and kicking during two brawls with minor bleeding injuries; clawing and scratching fight between female characters; male character slaps and threatens two female characters; bloody head of dead woman.

Violence: The film includes frequent portrayals of weapon and gun use, explosions, fistfights, shootings, stabbings, impaling and other bloody injuries.

Instead of more police and more guns that would create enormous fear, trauma and risk of injury or death, we need safety and disciplinary practices that will actually support and protect children from harm.

Cats are taking the brunt of the gun crime, with many suffering life - changing injuries after being hit in the face and limbs.

A skin cut is one of the most common injuries for gun dogs in a training session or on a hunting trip.

Vets see shocking injuries caused to cats by air guns, so we want to see better enforcement of animal welfare legislation and urge the police and local authorities to take action where they can.»

Anyone using an air gun, whether they are an adult or child, should be aware of the very serious injuries these weapons inflict.

«More than three - quarters (78 per cent) of vets said that air gun injuries were more frequently inflicted on cats than other types of animal.

The Taser gun injury attorneys, Kreisman Law Offices, have more than 40 years of experience in personal injury lawsuits.

Reports of Taser gun injuries in the Chicago area range from that of an unarmed, handcuffed teenager to an 82 year old woman Tasered by police.

How it possible that we hear about a «proliferation» of «hired gun» experts in the personal injury context even as we are told that litigators are constantly reminding their experts about their «duties»?

Several years ago Justice Osborne mentioned the «proliferation» of «hired gun» experts in the driving up costs in the Ontario personal injury system as one of many troublesome access to justice issues.