HSC 4201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Justifiable Homicide, Homicide, Suicidal Ideation
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Statistics on fatal and nonfatal firearm injuries include data covering both intentional and unintentional incidents. When one considers all firearm deaths, firearms were the third leading cause of injury deaths after poisoning and motor vehicles in 2010. 2007 : there were 31,672 firearm injury deaths. 613 were classified as unintentional deaths: firearms were used in: Less than 1% of unintentional injury deaths: past studies have found that males were six times more likely to die or be treated in an emergency department for a gunshot wound than were females. Highest risk for homicide and suicide involving firearms are teenage boys and young men aged. Nearly 16% of high school students indicated that they had seriously considered suicide at least once in the 12 months before the survey. The gun-toting behavior continues even in college: random sample of 10,000 undergraduate students. 4. 3% reported that they had a working firearm at college.
