Firearms and Alcohol

In their study, “State Level Firearm Concealed Carry Legislation and Rates of Homicide and Other Violent Crime,” Hamill and colleagues1 attempt to answer the question of whether increased numbers of individuals carrying concealed weapons would result in increased gun violence. The authors state that their stati stical technique is sufficiently rigorous to answer this question definitively and, as a result of their findings, that a recommendation to de-emphasize the role of concealed-carry in gun violence should be adopted by the surgical community.

Source: Journal of the American College of Surgeons - April 24, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: Lewis Zulick Tags: Letter Source Type: research