OBJECTIVE To describe suicide mortality trend and sociodemographic patterns identifying gender and socioeconomic differences. METHODS The trend of crude rates of suicide mortality by sex in the city of Campinas, Brazil, for the period 1976-2001 was assessed. Data from the Mortality Registry were used for sociodemographic analyses in the period 1996-2001. An ecological approach was used to exa...

Analyses from the National Comorbidity Study Replication provide the first nationally representative estimates of the co-occurrence of impulsive angry behavior and possessing or carrying a gun among adults with and without certain mental disorders and demographic characteristics. The study found that a large number of individuals in the United States self-report patterns of impulsive angry beha...

This study aimed to examine the level of shooting accuracy demonstrated by law enforcement recruits upon completion of their law enforcement firearms training in comparison with novice shooters. One hundred and ninety-five male and 52 female law enforcement recruits volunteered. Participants were separated by firearms experience into the following groups: expert (completed law enforcement firea...

Gun shows are public gatherings where licensed gun dealers and private owners use formal informal venues to exchange information or sell buy firearms, accessories, ammunition. A major challenge is that shows, unlike established business locations, can be considered gray zones regulatory loopholes facilitate the movement of legal firearms illegal domains both domestically internationally. Given ...

Firearms research has been hindered by a persistent lack of high-quality, reliable, and timely data. Using social media data in firearms is, therefore, appealing: these are large scale, continuously provided, passively obtained, inexpensive some cases, easily combined with from traditional sources. We consider how have used to date they can be best moving forward. Despite the many advantages us...

Firearms claim the lives of .30 000 Americans annually; frequently among these are children. This problem is not new; it has existed for decades. One of the most publicly visible physicians of our time, C. Everett Koop, a pediatric surgeon and former Surgeon General of the United States, recognized that violence was a public health problem, and in 1985 convened a workshop to address this proble...