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Abstract
We examined the relationship between levels of household firearm ownership, as measured
directly and by a proxy-the percentage of suicides committed with a firearm-and age-adjusted
firearm homicide rates at the state level.
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Michael Siegel is with the Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University
School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Craig S. Ross is with Virtual Media Resources,
Natick, MA. Charles King III is with Greylock McKinnon Associates, Cambridge, and
Pleiades Consulting Group, Lincoln, MA.