Guns as a Public

Health Issue
Parker Daudt, Lucas Barrutia, Hailey Chambers

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX4qUsgHa4Y

 As of October 26, 2016

46,670 total incidents involving guns
12,003 deaths
24,878 injuries

311 Mass Shootings

Four or more shot and/or killed in a singe incident, at the
same general time and location (not including the
shooter)

Statistics

Dayon, OH: 1 Killed, 3 Injured (10/25,16)

Roanoke, VA: 2 Killed, 3 Injured (10/25/16)
Wellston, OK: 1 Killed, 5 Injured (10/23/16)
Oakland, CA: 0 Killed, 7 Injured (10/22/16)

1,716 Accidental Shootings

Pennifield Township, MI: 1 Injured (10/25/16)

San Antonio, TX: 1 Injured (10/25/16)
Santa Rosa, CA:1 Injured (10/25/16)
Hunington, WV:1 Injured (10/25/16)
24 Others in the past week: 4 Deaths, 23 Injuries

 1,959 Home Invasions

The forcible entry with firearms with the intent to
terrorize, steal or harm the occupants of the home.
33 in the last week
11 Killed, 14 Injured

1,460 Defensive Uses

Statistics

The reported use of force with a firearm to protect and/or

defend one's self or family.
26 in the last week
6 Killed, 15 Injured

263 Officer Involved Incidents (Officer Shot or Killed)

5 in the last week
2 Killed, 11 Injured

1,537 Officer Involved Incidents (Subject Shot or Killed)

38 in the last week
16 Killed, 31 Injured

 554 Children (Age 0-11) Killed or Injured

9 incidents in the last week

Statistics

5 Killed, 11 Injured

2,551 Teens (Age 12-17) Killed or Injured

59 incidents in the last week
31 Killed, 57 Injured

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 Approximately 30,000 men and women die each year

at the barrel of a gun in public places (Schools, Movie
Theaters, Shopping Malls)
12,003 Killed in the U.S. this year

Psychology
of Gun
Violence

Includes suicides which 2/3 of are from result of a

firearm.

Guns are the second most deadly preventable public

health menace which comes almost a near tie with
car accidents.
The firearm homicide rate in the U.S. is 20 times
higher for all individuals and 43 times higher for 1524 year old's than in other countries.
1,460 Defensive Firearm incidents in the United
States.

 1967, Leonard Berkowitz and Anthony LePage

Weapons
Effect

Participants were angered by a person, and then were

seated at a table that had a shotgun and a revolver as well
as a table with badminton racquets and other items.
Participants were supposed to decide what level of electric
shock to deliver to the individual and also to measure
aggression.
Participants who saw the guns were more aggressive than
participants that saw the sports items.

Research shows that the mere presence of weapons

increases aggression.
Research may show that drivers with guns in their cars are

more likely to drive aggressively.

Guns not only permit violence, they can stimulate it as
well.
"The finger pulls the trigger, but the trigger may also be
pulling the finger."

 Guns are convenient, which is why we prefer guns to

anything else.
The research shows that there are certain advantages
to killing someone with a gun than say your hands.

Psychology
of Carrying
a Firearm

Guns remove the intimacy of killing and the thought

of approaching your victim and by using force is
unsettling.
Shooting a gun from thirty feet is way easier because
your away from everything and internalizing the act.
Humans are not comfortable dealing with gruesome
imagery.

Everyone has violent tendencies and guns can create

aggression.
Every item that's tangible can be considered a
dangerous weapon.

 Why do we use Guns?

1. Protection
2. Recreation

Why Guns?

Hunting
Competition
Collection

3. Paranoia (Perceived Necessity)

4. Social and Cultural Pressures

Guns and
Public
Health

 CDC research in 1993

found gun possession to
be correlated with
increased risk of
homicide

Federal
Funding
Freeze

1996 Congress passed

Omnibus Consolidated
Appropriations Bill
none of the funds
made available for
injury prevention and
control at the Centers
for Disease Control
and Prevention may
be used to advocate
or promote gun
control.

 2009 study funded by

the NIH demonstrated
a link between gun
ownership and gun
assault

Further
Congression
al Action

Congress passed
Consolidated
Appropriations Act of
2012 using same
language

 Critical Research
Questions:

Public
Health
Concerns

Over 100 undersigned

organizations:
American Medical
Association
American Academy
of Family Physicians
Academic Pediatric
Association
American Educational
Research Association
American
Psychological
Association

How can we prevent

toddlers from
accidentally firing a
firearm?
What are the most
effective ways to
prevent gun-related
suicides?
What is the impact of
the variety of state
policies being
enacted?

 http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/brainflapping/2015/oct/07/gun-demanding-control-firearms-psychology
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/08/nih-gun-violence-researchgrants/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/get-psyched/201301/theweapons-effect

Sources

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