TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Guns and suicide in the United States
JO  - New England journal of medicine
A1  - Miller, Margaret
A1  - Hemenway, David A.
SP  - 989
EP  - 991
VL  - 359
IS  - 10
N2  - This past June (2008), in a 5-to-4 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, the United States Supreme Court struck down a ban on handgun ownership in the nation's capital and ruled that the District's law requiring all firearms in the home to be locked violated the Second Amendment to the Constitution. But the Supreme Court's finding of a Second Amendment right to have a handgun in the home does not mean that it is a wise decision to own a gun or to keep it easily accessible. Deciding whether to own a gun entails balancing potential benefits and risks. One of the risks for which the empirical evidence is strongest, and the risk whose death toll is greatest, is that of completed suicide.    <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0028-4793
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp0805923
ID  - ref1
ER  -