Sentences with phrase «saved by firearms»
«@trmcloughlin What we don't know is how many lives have been saved by firearms.
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If we act now by changing laws surrounding firearms and mental illness, we too can save lives.
A 2016 review of 130 studies in 10 countries, published in Epidemiologic Reviews, found that new legal restrictions on owning and purchasing guns tended to be followed by a drop in gun violence — a strong indicator that restricting access to firearms can save lives.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said in a statement, «The NYPD remains committed to saving lives by stopping the distribution of illegal firearms.»
He had argued that the association between more laws and fewer deaths disappeared when the authors accounted for firearm ownership in a state — meaning that it is impossible to say whether the restrictive gun laws save lives by inhibiting gun ownership or whether laws are simply easier to enact in states in which ownership rates are already low.