Gun availability and state suicide rates, 1988-1997 (cross sectional analysis) Using a validated proxy for firearm ownership rates, we analyzed the relationship between firearm availability and suicide across 50 states over a ten year period. Major findings: After controlling for poverty and urbanization, for every age group, across the United States, people in states with many guns have elevated rates of suicide, particularly firearm suicide. Publication: Miller, Matthew; Azrael, Deborah; Hemenway, David. "Household Firearm Ownership Levels and Suicide across U.S. Regions and States, 1988-1997." Epidemiology. 2002; 13:517-524.
Overall the page (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/index.html) looks at all the things already discussed. What is very impressive is that the relation between firearm ownership and suicide/homicide/unintentional death held even for controlling most other factors. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0805923 > > http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/research/hicrc/firearms-research/guns-and-death/index.html > > This last reference is very extensive it compares the various rates of > suicide, accidental deaths, homicide etc as a function of firearms in > the house across all sorts of conditions over a 10 to 30 year period - > depending on the analysis. Its very consistent, in all these > situations, the presence of firearms significantly increases the > changes of death in the household. > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I'll have to dig up the source for this again, but I remember reading >> recently that if there is a handgun in the house, suicide, accidental >> deaths, and homicides increase by 2 or 3 times over those household >> who do not have handguns. >> >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:35 AM, GMoney <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Well let's look at that. Is the homicide rate by firearm exponentially >>>> higher in Arizona as compared to the rest of the US? >>>> >>> >>> Why do people always focus on homicide rate when it comes to guns? >>> >>> Hand guns do far more damage every single day in this country than can be >>> reflected in attributable deaths. I'd like to see this stat: Number of >>> times in a given day that an innocent American's day, week, month, year or >>> possible life, is negatively affected by a hand gun. >>> >>> Doesn't have to be a homicide...could be as simple as a night time clerk >>> who had a gun shoved in his face and now is afraid to even leave his house. >>> Or the battered wife who's reminded of the glock King Asshole keeps in his >>> closet should she ever think about leaving him. The gun flashed in the >>> waistband of the punk on the street because someone else looked at him >>> wrong. >>> >>> You are getting lost in statistics when all it takes is a little common >>> sense: Why do we need easily concealable and portable weapons? Only two >>> reasons: 1) to do bad things to people or 2) to protect ourselves from the >>> people in 1. Your argument is the same tired one: we can never eliminate 1, >>> so we should always have 2. In reality, 2 ensures 1 will always thrive, >>> which feeds 2, which feeds 1, which.....on and on and on it goes. >>> >>> We should be better than this. >>> >>> -- >>> Through the too many miles >>> And the too little smiles >>> I still remember you >>> >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347441 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
