Temporal trends and geographic variations in mortality rates from tobacco and firearms in the United States

Palumbo, Sarah A.; Levine, Robert S.; Robishaw, Janet D.; Hennekens, Charles H.

doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2023.107622

Preventive Medicine

2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2023.107622

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Temporal trends and geographic variations in mortality rates from tobacco and firearms in the United States

Sarah A. Palumbo

Robert S. Levine

Janet D. Robishaw

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Locked and loaded: correlates of in-home firearm storage beliefs and behaviours

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2024

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ObjectivesTo understand how crime and victimisation fears and risks operate alongside social status threats and motivations to shape unsafe in-home firearm storage practices and beliefs.MethodsUsing data from firearm owners identified in a nationwide sample surveyed in 2023, this study examined how in-home loaded firearm accessibility, firearm storage practice and firearm safety beliefs are associated with: fear of crime and victimisation; perceived and personal victimisation; racial resentment; cultural and status threats; and masculinity threats. Regression models also accounted for the role of gender, race, marital status, political affiliation, geographic region and protective motivation for firearm ownership.ResultsOver 40% of firearm owners reported having a loaded firearm ‘always accessible’ at home, and almost half think homes with firearms are safer than those without. About one-third of owners reported storing firearms locked but still loaded. Crime and victimisation fears and threats were unrelated to firearm storage behaviours and beliefs; however, firearm owners who experience higher levels of sociocultural anxiety are more likely to always have a loaded firearm accessible at home, store firearms locked and loaded, and believe that firearms make homes safer.ConclusionsIdentifying the barriers to safer storage beliefs and behaviours is essential for refining and enhancing effective firearm injury prevention strategies. Sociocultural anxieties may not reflect concrete threats to physical safety, but they can be experienced as feelings of insecurity, instability and distress that—for some Americans—may be managed by knowing they have a (loaded) firearm within reach.

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Locked and loaded: correlates of in-home firearm storage beliefs and behaviours

Warner

2024

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Temporal trends and geographic variations in mortality rates from tobacco and firearms in the United States

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Locked and loaded: correlates of in-home firearm storage beliefs and behaviours

Locked and loaded: correlates of in-home firearm storage beliefs and behaviours

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