Daniel W. Webster

TL;DR: The public health community has long recognized unintentional gun injuries as a public health issue and possible explanations for this downward trend are discussed, such as changes in gun ownership and demography.

TL;DR: Large majorities of Americans support a range of gun violence prevention policies and most Americans continue to support universal back ground checks for gun sales, according to a survey two years after the Newtown tragedy.

TL;DR: Pediatricians should encourage parents to remove guns from the home, or at a minimum to keep guns unloaded and locked up, and advise parents to limit viewing of gun violence in the media, and playing with toy guns and video games that involve shooting.

TL;DR: The National Research Collaborative on Firearm Violence met in June 2005 to define a research agenda that could fill research and data gaps and inform policy that reduces gun-related crime, deaths and injuries and identifies priorities for research and funding.

TL;DR: It is estimated that the effect of the permit-to-purchase repeal on Missouri’s firearm homicide rate is bracketed between 0.9 and 1.3 homicides per 100,000 people, corresponding to a percentage increase of 17% to 27% (95% confidence interval: 0.6, 1.7 or 11%, 35%).