07-02-2015, 09:20 AM
I don't know the answer to that Six.
There is historically and currently too much variance in how shootings, injuries and deaths are classified by ERs, hospitals, MEs and LE within the same state, much less across states, to get a meaningful number.
But some studies have been conducted measuring the results of Child Access Prevention law enactment.
-In twelve states where such laws had been in effect for at least one year, unintentional firearm deaths fell by 23% from 1990-94 among children under 15 years of age. Source: Peter Cummings et al., State Gun Safe Storage Laws and Child Mortality Due to Firearms, 278 JAMA 1084, 1084 (Oct. 1997).
-A study evaluating the association between CAP laws and suicides among youth found that such laws were associated with an 8.3% decrease in suicides among 14-17 year olds. Source: Daniel W. Webster et al., Association Between Youth-Focused Firearm Laws & Youth Suicides, 292 JAMA 594, 596-98 (Aug. 2004).
-A study found that the practices of keeping firearms locked, unloaded, and storing ammunition in a locked location separate from firearms serve as a protective measure to reduce youth suicide and unintentional injury in homes with children and teenagers where guns are stored. Source: David C. Grossman et al., Gun Storage Practices and Risk of Youth Suicide and Unintentional Firearm Injuries, 293 JAMA 707, 711-13 (2005), at http://depts.washington.edu/hiprc/pdf/LockboxJAMA.pdf.
Most comprehensive firearm studies are ten or more years old. One of the Executive Actions that Obama signed after Sandy Hook authorized funding for more in-depth and updated firearm research. I hope some meaningful and unbiased updated research is underway.
There is historically and currently too much variance in how shootings, injuries and deaths are classified by ERs, hospitals, MEs and LE within the same state, much less across states, to get a meaningful number.
But some studies have been conducted measuring the results of Child Access Prevention law enactment.
-In twelve states where such laws had been in effect for at least one year, unintentional firearm deaths fell by 23% from 1990-94 among children under 15 years of age. Source: Peter Cummings et al., State Gun Safe Storage Laws and Child Mortality Due to Firearms, 278 JAMA 1084, 1084 (Oct. 1997).
-A study evaluating the association between CAP laws and suicides among youth found that such laws were associated with an 8.3% decrease in suicides among 14-17 year olds. Source: Daniel W. Webster et al., Association Between Youth-Focused Firearm Laws & Youth Suicides, 292 JAMA 594, 596-98 (Aug. 2004).
-A study found that the practices of keeping firearms locked, unloaded, and storing ammunition in a locked location separate from firearms serve as a protective measure to reduce youth suicide and unintentional injury in homes with children and teenagers where guns are stored. Source: David C. Grossman et al., Gun Storage Practices and Risk of Youth Suicide and Unintentional Firearm Injuries, 293 JAMA 707, 711-13 (2005), at http://depts.washington.edu/hiprc/pdf/LockboxJAMA.pdf.
Most comprehensive firearm studies are ten or more years old. One of the Executive Actions that Obama signed after Sandy Hook authorized funding for more in-depth and updated firearm research. I hope some meaningful and unbiased updated research is underway.