Special Committee on Gun Violence
Firearms and Public Health
- Firearm-associated family and intimate assaults are 12 times more likely to be fatal than those not associated with firearms.
Saltzman LE. Weapon involvement and injury outcomes in family and intimate assaults.
Journal of the American Medical Association 1992; 267:3043 .
- Approximately one-third of all murders of American women are committed by intimate partners, compared to only 4% of men.
Homicide trends in the U.S. Intimate homicide. Washington D.C.:
U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics; 2002.
- A 1998 survey of parents showed that 23% of gun-owning households keep a gun loaded and 28% keep a gun hidden, but not locked.
Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Study #5331 October/November 1998
- Growing up in a household with guns is one of the strongest predictors of gun ownership. Americans whose parents owned guns were three times as likely as others to own guns themselves. Eighty percent of gun owners said that their parents had kept a firearm in the home.
National Institute of Justice. Research in Brief, May 1997.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice.
