The nation has been trying to deal with high levels of gun violence for decades. Have many efforts to combat it been successful? The Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason University...
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Media Mention: Amplify your reporting with these public health and crime datasets
Data on gun violence can be notoriously hard to find and compile. There is no comprehensive national plan for gathering and disseminating firearms use and injury data, according to NORC. Operations...
Media Mention: 300 Gun Purchases Stopped Last Year With New Michigan Law
What is the new law and how did it prevent potentially dangerous gun sales? Sources are taking a look at just how effective Michigan's Red Flag Law has been one full year after being implemented....
Media Mention: New Michigan laws make storing firearms safely more important than ever
Several new laws are now in effect in Michigan that aim to reduce the toll of firearm injuries and deaths across the state, by requiring guns to be stored securely in any location where young people...
Media Mention: Michigan lawmakers pass gun safety bills
Lawmakers in Lansing worked through a long agenda during the last few weeks of session. The Capitol was filled with protestors, advocates, and groups like End Gun Violence Michigan, calling for...
Firearm Injury Risk Prediction Among Children Transported by 9-1-1 Emergency Medical Services: A Machine Learning Analysis
Newgard, C. D., Babcock, S., Malveau, S., Lin, A., Goldstick, J., Carter, P., Cook, J. N. B., Song, X., Wei, R., Salvi, A., Fallat, M. E., Kuppermann, N., Jenkins, P. C., Fein, J. A., & Mann, N....
Firearm possession among emergency department youth and young adults: A latent class analysis
Hartman, H. A., Seewald, L. A., Stallworth, P., Lee, D. B., Zimmerman, M. A., Ehrlich, P. F., Walton, M. A., Resnicow, K., & Carter, P. M. (2024). Firearm possession among emergency department...
U-M Livestream: Celebrate Safely: Holiday Firearm Safety Matters Webinar
Experts from the University of Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research, Michigan Medicine, the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention and the Marquette County Health Department will...
Childhood Firearm Deaths During Intimate Partner Violence Incidents: 2004–2020
Laura A. Seewald, Heather A. Hartman, Philip Stallworth, Eugenio Weigend Vargas, Peter F. Ehrlich, Heather Dykstra, Cynthia Ewell Foster, Rebeccah Sokol, Douglas Wiebe, Patrick M. Carter; Childhood...
Youth Firearm Mortality in the Americas From 2015 to 2022
Degli Esposti, M., Pulcini, C. D., Fleegler, E. W., Weigend Vargas, E., Vargas, L., Yock-Corrales, A., & Hargarten, S. (2024). Youth Firearm Mortality in the Americas From 2015 to 2022. JAMA...
Store safely: A firearm injury prevention strategy for rural families
Ewell Foster, C., Magness, C. S., Derwin, S., Kahsay, E., Smith, T., Rivara, F. P., Massey, L., & King, C. A. (2024). Store safely: A firearm injury prevention strategy for rural families....
Media Mention: Solutions to U.S. Gun Violence Hinge on Election
In 2020, the last time the presidency was on the ballot, firearm injuries became the leading cause of death among children. This June, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared firearm violence a public...