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Subject: Handguns Dramatically Increase Suicide Risk-Study
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> Handguns Dramatically Increase Suicide Risk-Study
> [Image]5.19 p.m. ET (2229 GMT) November 17, 1999
>
> BOSTON - In the week after buying a handgun, the purchaser
> was 57 times more likely than the general population to
> commit suicide, according to a study of California handgun
> buyers published in Thursday's New England Journal of
> Medicine.
>
> The study, which followed 238,292 people who bought a
> handgun in California in 1991, found that men were four
> times more likely to commit suicide in the year after they
> purchased a handgun than men in general.
>
> Women, who bought just 12 percent of guns in California,
> faced a suicide risk 16 times higher than the rest of the
> female population during the first year of gun ownership,
> the study found.
>
> The report found that higher suicide risk persists for at
> least six years after a gun is bought.
>
> "The purchase of a handgun is associated with substantial
> changes in the risk of violent death,'' said the research
> team, led by Dr. Garen J. Wintemute of the University of
> California at Davis.
>
> Among legal handgun buyers, suicide by any means was the
> leading cause of death during the first year of ownership,
> accounting for 24.5 percent of deaths, compared with 1.7
> percent of all deaths among adult Californians in 1991 and
> 1992.
>
> Among handgun buyers in California, firearms-related suicide
> was the second leading cause of death. Heart disease ranked
> first; cancer ranked third.
>
> "Of all handgun purchasers who committed suicide by firearms
> during the six-year observation period, 25 percent of women
> and 13.7 percent of men did so within a month after buying
> their handguns,'' the researchers reported.
>
> When the Wintemute study looked at the risk of being
> murdered, they found that female gun owners were twice as
> likely as the rest of the population to be killed by a gun.
>
> The researchers called that finding "striking.''
>
> "It may be that many women purchase handguns for protection
> against violence from an intimate partner and that these
> handguns are used by the partners against them,'' they said.
>
> On the other hand, male gun owners were 16 percent less
> likely to be shot themselves and 34 percent less likely to
> be murdered by any means than the overall population.
>
> Because handgun owners were also less likely to die from
> cancer, accidents or any other cause, those statistics may
> reflect the fact that the average gun buyer tends to be more
> affluent, less likely to live in a bad neighborhood or
> suffer from poor health, the researchers said.
>
> But an editorial in the Journal says that the lower murder
> rate among male gun owners "may represent a true protective
> effect of handgun purchase and needs to be considered
> seriously and examined further.''
>
> The editorial, by Dr. Mark Rosenberg of the Collaborative
> Center for Child Well-being, James Mercy of the Medical
> College of Wisconsin, and Lloyd Potter of the U.S. Centers
> for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said the new
> findings "do not demonstrate that the purchase of a firearm
> caused suicidal behavior or actually increased the risk of
> suicide among those who purchased handguns.''
>
> Because firearms tend to be more lethal than other means of
> suicide, they said, the challenge is "to find a way to
> prevent such purchasers of handguns from committing
> suicide.''
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> Online.
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> 20th Century Fox Film Corp.
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Just try and count all the logical fallicies, I dare you...
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Subject: Handguns Dramatically Increase Suicide Risk-Study
>
> [Image]
> Handguns Dramatically Increase Suicide Risk-Study
> [Image]5.19 p.m. ET (2229 GMT) November 17, 1999
>
> BOSTON - In the week after buying a handgun, the purchaser
> was 57 times more likely than the general population to
> commit suicide, according to a study of California handgun
> buyers published in Thursday's New England Journal of
> Medicine.
>
> The study, which followed 238,292 people who bought a
> handgun in California in 1991, found that men were four
> times more likely to commit suicide in the year after they
> purchased a handgun than men in general.
>
> Women, who bought just 12 percent of guns in California,
> faced a suicide risk 16 times higher than the rest of the
> female population during the first year of gun ownership,
> the study found.
>
> The report found that higher suicide risk persists for at
> least six years after a gun is bought.
>
> "The purchase of a handgun is associated with substantial
> changes in the risk of violent death,'' said the research
> team, led by Dr. Garen J. Wintemute of the University of
> California at Davis.
>
> Among legal handgun buyers, suicide by any means was the
> leading cause of death during the first year of ownership,
> accounting for 24.5 percent of deaths, compared with 1.7
> percent of all deaths among adult Californians in 1991 and
> 1992.
>
> Among handgun buyers in California, firearms-related suicide
> was the second leading cause of death. Heart disease ranked
> first; cancer ranked third.
>
> "Of all handgun purchasers who committed suicide by firearms
> during the six-year observation period, 25 percent of women
> and 13.7 percent of men did so within a month after buying
> their handguns,'' the researchers reported.
>
> When the Wintemute study looked at the risk of being
> murdered, they found that female gun owners were twice as
> likely as the rest of the population to be killed by a gun.
>
> The researchers called that finding "striking.''
>
> "It may be that many women purchase handguns for protection
> against violence from an intimate partner and that these
> handguns are used by the partners against them,'' they said.
>
> On the other hand, male gun owners were 16 percent less
> likely to be shot themselves and 34 percent less likely to
> be murdered by any means than the overall population.
>
> Because handgun owners were also less likely to die from
> cancer, accidents or any other cause, those statistics may
> reflect the fact that the average gun buyer tends to be more
> affluent, less likely to live in a bad neighborhood or
> suffer from poor health, the researchers said.
>
> But an editorial in the Journal says that the lower murder
> rate among male gun owners "may represent a true protective
> effect of handgun purchase and needs to be considered
> seriously and examined further.''
>
> The editorial, by Dr. Mark Rosenberg of the Collaborative
> Center for Child Well-being, James Mercy of the Medical
> College of Wisconsin, and Lloyd Potter of the U.S. Centers
> for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said the new
> findings "do not demonstrate that the purchase of a firearm
> caused suicidal behavior or actually increased the risk of
> suicide among those who purchased handguns.''
>
> Because firearms tend to be more lethal than other means of
> suicide, they said, the challenge is "to find a way to
> prevent such purchasers of handguns from committing
> suicide.''
> comments@newsdigital.com
> ) 1999, News America Digital Publishing, Inc. d/b/a Fox News
> Online.
> All rights reserved. Fox News is a registered trademark of
> 20th Century Fox Film Corp.
> ) Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved
http://www.foxnews.com/news/wires2/1117/n_rt_1117_159.sml