Citation

Sarani B, Smith ER. J. Am. Coll. Surg. 2019; 229(3): 324.

Affiliation

Washington, DC.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American College of Surgeons, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2019.03.016

PMID

31431279

Abstract

We would like to thank de Jager and colleagues for their thoughtful commentary regarding our paper, “Wounding patterns based on firearm type in civilian public mass shootings in the United States.”1 The authors based their argument mostly on their own study, which examined FBI records of civilian public mass shootings (CPMS) to determine case-fatality ratio based on weapon type. However, that study grouped all events that involved multiple firearms in which 1 firearm was an assault weapon into the same group ...

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