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Curfman, Gregory D, Stephen Morrissey and Jeffrey M Drazen. 2008 ‘Handgun Violence, Public Health, and the Law.’ New England Journal of Medicine; 358 (14), pp. 1503-1504. Massachusetts: Massachusetts Medical Society. 3 April

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Handgun Violence, Public Health, and the Law

Firearms were used to kill 30,143 people in the United States in 2005, the most recent year with complete data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[1]

A total of 17,002 of these were suicides, 12,352 homicides, and 789 accidental firearm deaths. Nearly half of these deaths occurred in people under the age of 35.

When we consider that there were also nearly 70,000 nonfatal injuries from firearms, we are left with the staggering fact that 100,000 men, women, and children were killed or wounded by firearms in the span of just one year. This translates into one death from firearms every 17 minutes and one death or nonfatal injury every 5 minutes.

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1) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Number of deaths from 113 selected causes by age: United States, 2005. (Accessed March 13, 2008, at http://www.disastercenter.com/cdc/Age%20of%20Deaths%20113%20Causes%202005.html)

ID: Q1975

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