- In 1996, a pro-gun Congress used a rider to ban federal agencies from researching the prevention of gun deaths. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1487470 39 comments politics
- Gun-Control Dishonesty - The push to “do something, anything,” has nothing to do with preventing deaths. http://m.nationalreview.com/article/366226/gun-control-dishonesty-charles-c-w-cooke 56 comments politics
- How to Prevent Gun Deaths? Where Experts and the Public Agree https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/10/upshot/how-to-prevent-gun-deaths-the-views-of-experts-and-the-public.html 3 comments politics
- With $5 Million from the NIH, a Team of Researchers Will Study Ways to Prevent Child Gun Deaths https://www.thetrace.org/rounds/nih-gun-violence-research-child-deaths-university-of-michigan/ 4 comments politics
- New Study: Anyone Who Thinks They Know How to Prevent Gun Deaths is Full of It http://www.pluralist.com/posts/183-new-study-anyone-who-thinks-they-know-how-to-prevent-gun-deaths-is-full-of-it 11 comments moderatepolitics
- Obama Takes on Congress Over Gun Laws: "We spend over a trillion dollars on preventing terrorism...yet we have a Congress that prevents us from even collecting data on how to reduce gun deaths." http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/10/obama-takes-congress-over-gun-laws 7 comments politics
- Safe gun storage could prevent up to 32% of youth firearm deaths, both accidental and by suicide, shows a new modeling study based off of data from youth firearm suicide and unintentional firearm mortality in 2015 in the US. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/13/health/locked-up-guns-child-deaths-study/index.html 404 comments science
- Safe gun storage could prevent up to 32% of youth firearm deaths, both accidental and by suicide, shows a new modeling study based off of data from youth firearm suicide and unintentional firearm mortality in 2015 in the US. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/13/health/locked-up-guns-child-deaths-study/index.html 5 comments science
- Safe gun storage could prevent up to 32% of youth firearm deaths, both accidental and by suicide, shows a new modeling study based off of data from youth firearm suicide and unintentional firearm mortality in 2015 in the US. https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/13/health/locked-up-guns-child-deaths-study/index.html 64 comments science
- Gun control really works. Science has shown time and again that it can prevent mass shootings and save lives: 'According to a recent study six countries - Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, and the US -accounted for 50.5% of the 251,000 global firearm deaths in 2016.' https://www.businessinsider.com/gun-control-research-how-policies-can-reduce-deaths-2019-8 13 comments worldnews
- How Texas lawmakers have failed to respond to mass shootings, according to a gun violence prevention advocate | CDC data: Firearm death rate of Texas children has more than doubled since Gov. Greg Abbott took office https://www.ksat.com/news/defenders/2022/06/17/how-texas-lawmakers-have-failed-to-respond-to-mass-shootings-according-to-a-gun-violence-prevention-advocate/ 31 comments politics
- Handgun waiting periods reduce gun deaths: New study finds that expanding the waiting period policy to all other US states would prevent an additional 910 gun homicides per year without imposing any restrictions on who can own a gun. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/10/11/1619896114 961 comments science
- Utah lawmakers say they want to protect kids. Here are the gun laws the Legislature did — and didn’t — pass. Firearms have surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death among children and adolescents, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2023/04/03/utah-lawmakers-say-they-want/ 14 comments politics
- Restrictive gun policies are associated with reductions in firearm deaths. States that have the most restrictive combination of (i) "child access prevention" laws, (ii) "right-to-carry" laws, and (iii) "stand-your-ground" laws are estimated to have 11% fewer firearm deaths. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/06/09/1921965117 610 comments science
- Those who are killed by guns when they are young are much more often black, while their white counterparts are dying older, finds a new study. These deaths cannot be prevented by just increased policing, but like other diseases characterized by disparity, with social programs to reduce inequities. http://www.bu.edu/research/articles/gun-related-deaths-decreased-american-life-expectancy/ 14 comments science
- Best Way to Prevent Rare Massacres: Focus on 'Routine' Violence | Americans' access to guns leads to thousands of deaths each year in accidents, suicides, fights and crimes. So getting a national handle on our gun problem, if effective, will mostly be about preventing those mundane kinds of deaths. http://bigthink.com/mind-matters/best-way-to-prevent-rare-massacres-focus-on-routine-violence?page=all 9 comments politics