Firearm Access and Suicide
Lethal Means Counseling and Safe Storage Education in a Comprehensive Prevention Strategy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11028314 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander D Mccourt (0000-0002-3524-3454, Alexander D. McCourt is with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 185-187 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2020.306059 |
| PMID | 33439717 |
| OpenAlex | W3119474467 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
Most firearm-related deaths are deaths by suicide, and approximately half of all suicide deaths involve a firearm 1 Recent research has identified a sustained risk of suicide by firearm for those who own handguns and has suggested that risk for suicide peaks just after an individual's first handgun purchase 2 During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, the United States has seen record-breaking gun sales, and many purchasers are first-time owners, which may mean that a large section of the population is at newly elevated risk for suicide 3 Although policymakers tend to focus on certain laws to reduce gun violence, these laws are not sufficient to fully address suicide risk when an individual's risk is not apparent Extreme Risk Protection Order laws are intended to remove firearms from the home of someone at high risk for harming himself or herself or others Because suicide is often an impulsive act taken in response to acute stressors, it is not always possible to preemptively identify and act on risk of suicide 1 A person experiencing a transient crisis may not satisfy any statutory or other legal criteria prohibiting gun acquisition [ ]researchers should seek to evaluate similar interventions in other populations
Criminology · Environmental health · Gun control · Injury prevention · Medical emergency · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Political science · Population · Statutory law · Suicide prevention · Gun Ownership and Violence Research · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies · Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2024 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |