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State gun laws, gun ownership, and mass shootings in the US: cross sectional time series
States with more permissive gun laws and greater gun ownership had higher rates of mass shootings, and a growing divide appears to be emerging between restrictive and per …
The Association Between State Laws Regulating Handgun Ownership and Statewide Suicide Rates
The results are thus supportive of the potential of handgun legislation to have an impact on suicide rates.
Firearm legislation and firearm-related fatalities in the United States
A higher number of firearm laws in a state are associated with a lower rate of firearm fatalities in the state, overall and for suicides and homicides individually. As ou …
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