@article{ref1,
title="Comparing gun-owning vs non-owning households in terms of firearm and non-firearm suicide and suicide attempts",
journal="Preventive medicine",
year="2019",
author="Hemenway, David A.",
volume="119",
number="",
pages="14-16",
abstract="The goal of this study is to provide, for the United States, estimates for gun-owning and non-owning households in terms of firearm and non-firearm suicides and suicide attempts. To make these ballpark estimates I combine a half-dozen known &quot;facts&quot; about suicide (e.g., households with firearms are at approximately 3× the risk of suicide as households without firearms). Among the six major conclusions are that about 90% of firearm suicides occur among members of gun-owning households, that 75% of suicides among gun-owning families are firearm suicides, but only 20% of suicide attempts among these families are with firearms. This study not only provides estimates of suicides and suicide attempts by gun-owning and non-owning households, but the reasonableness of the estimates provides support for the reasonableness of the half-dozen known &quot;facts&quot; about firearms and suicide.<br><br>Copyright © 2018. Published by Elsevier Inc.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0091-7435",
doi="10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.12.003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.12.003"
}