Abstract
Thirty-four percent of children in the United States (about 22 million children) live in a home with a firearm, and approximately 43 % of these homes have unlocked firearms.1 Schuster MA Franke TM Bastian AM Sor S Halfon N J Public Health. 2000; 90: 588-594 PubMed Google Scholar According to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, 2 National Center for Injury Prevention Firearm Control 15 leading causes of unintentional injury deaths, United States [online]. http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/Date: 2000 Google Scholar in 2000, more than 800 unintentional deaths were related to firearms. The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control estimates that there are approximately 3 nonfatal firearm injuries for every death associated with a firearm.
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