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Kids in the Line of Fire

Children, Handguns, and Homicide

Endnotes
  1. Report on School Associated Violent Deaths (Westlake Village, CA: National School Safety Center, 2001), 30.

  2. "Rates of Homicide, Suicide, and Firearm-Related Death Among Children�26 Industrialized Countries," Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 46, no. 5 (1997): 102.

  3. Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig, Guns in America: Results of a Comprehensive National Survey on Firearms Ownership and Use (Washington, D.C.: Police Foundation, 1996), 21, 33.

  4. Joseph F. Sheley and James D. Wright, High School Youths, Weapons, and Violence: A National Survey (Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice, 1998), 4.

  5. Joseph F. Sheley and James D. Wright, High School Youths, Weapons, and Violence: A National Survey (Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice, 1998), 3.

  6. Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) data is collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from state and local law enforcement agencies. Participation is voluntary, but most law enforcement agencies do participate. The SHR is the most comprehensive data set on homicides in the United States currently available.

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The Violence Policy Center is a national non-profit educational foundation that conducts research on violence in America and works to develop violence-reduction policies and proposals. The Center examines the role of firearms in America, conducts research on firearms violence, and explores new ways to decrease firearm-related death and injury.