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Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence


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Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence

 

Get it before it is disappeared. See also: http://www.examiner.com/article/study-says-self-defense-gun-use-is-effective?cid=db_articles

 

 

The report comes from the

Institute of Medicine and National Research Council for the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention on order from President Barack Obama. According to the report on

Page 15, “Defensive uses of guns by crime victims is a common

occurrence, although the exact number remains disputed.” Estimates range

from 500,000 to 3 million such uses annually.

On the following page, the report also notes, “Studies that directly

assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in

which a gun was “used“ by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or

threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates

among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other

self-protective strategies.”

The report also notes something that has been evident in FBI Uniform

Crime Reports for several years. The rate of violent crime has declined

over the past five years, and gun-related death rates for teens aged

15-19 declined from 1994 to 2009, the report says.

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