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Muse in Focus: Addressing Gun Violence

MUSE in Focus: Addressing Gun Violence
"MUSE in Focus: Addressing Gun Violence” is a selection of recent scholarship from Project MUSE publishers on gun violence, its effect throughout the culture, and its possible solutions."

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Fowler, K. A., Dahlberg, L. L., Haileyesus, T., Gutierrez, C., & Bacon, S. (2017). Childhood firearm injuries in the United States. Pediatrics, 140(1), doi: 10.1542/peds.2016-3486.
"Firearm injuries are an important public health problem, contributing substantially to premature death and disability of children. Understanding their nature and impact is a first step toward prevention."

Fatal firearm injury rates by intent and year, children aged 0 to 17 years, United States, 2002–2014. Data sourced from CDC/NEISS and US Census Bureau for population estimates. Statistical significance of regression results is indicated as * P < .05.

Casselman, B., Conlen, M., & Fischer-Baum, R. (2019). Gun deaths in America. Retrieved from https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/.
"This interactive graphic is part of our project exploring the more than 33,000 annual gun deaths in America and what it would take to bring that number down."
Everytown for Gun Safety. (2019). Gunfire on school grounds in the United States. Retrieved from https://everytownresearch.org/gunfire-in-school/7881/#7881.
"Over six years of tracking, this data has shown us that gunfire on school grounds takes many forms and mirrors the problem of gun violence in America. Gunfire on school grounds occurs most often at schools with a high proportion of students of color—disproportionately affecting Black students."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2019, January 10). Gunfire on school grounds. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm.
National Center for Health Statistics provides information to inform actions and policies to improve the health of the American people.