MISSING PIECES - Inter-Parliamentary Union

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14 South African civilians own 3.7 million firearms, while the police and army have 567,000. Gould,
Chandre and Guy Lamb (2004), Hide and Seek: A Report on the Southern Africa Research Programme
on Small Arms and Light Weapon, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria
15 Or 17.3 million firearms if law enforcement and military institutional stockpiles and inventories
are included. See Fernandes, Rubem César et al. (2005), ‘Where, whose and what: Mapping small
arms holdings’, in: The Small Arms Factor in Brazil, ISER, Rio de Janeiro. Available in English and
Portuguese
16 US National Academy of Sciences (2004), Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review, Washington,
DC. This report cites a lack of adequate data to either prove or disprove the efficacy of firearms
laws—both permissive and restrictive ones.
17 Hemenway, David (2004), Private Guns, Public Health, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor,
Michigan; Cukier, Wendy (2002), ‘More guns, more deaths’, Medicine, Conflict and Survival,
Vol. 8, pp. 367–379. As with most rules, exceptions might exist. For example, Yemen seems to
have a high rate of firearm ownership but a moderate rate of reported gun deaths. It is possible,
however, that this anomaly is due to incomplete information. See Small Arms Survey 2003:
Development Denied, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 169–189, and particularly pp. 179–180
18 Hemenway, David and M. Miller (2000), ‘Firearm availability and homicide rates across 26 highincome
countries’, Journal of Trauma, Vol. 49, Issue 6, pp. 985–988
19 WHO (2002), World Report on Violence and Health. Available at: www.who.int/violence_injury_
prevention/violence/world_report/chapters/en/
20 Small Arms Survey 2004, p. 176
21 Small Arms Survey 2004, p. 176
22 WHO (2004), ‘Suicide huge but preventable public health problem, says WHO’, Press release for
Suicide Prevention Day 2004, 10 September. Available at: www.who.int/mediacentre/news/
releases/2004/pr61/en/
23 Small Arms Survey 2004, p. 176
24 Sayil, I. (1991), ‘Turkey’, International Association for the Study of Pain Newsletter, Vol. 2, Issue 3.
25 WHO, Pan American Health Organisation, and Small Arms Survey (2004), ‘Firearm-related
violence in Brazil—Violência por armas de fogo no Brasil’. Available at: www.smallarmssurvey.org/
copublications.htm
26 Kellermann, A. and J. Waeckerle (1998), ‘Preventing firearm injuries’, Annals of Emergency Medicine,
Vol. 32, pp. 77–79
27 Yuksel, F. et al. (2004), ‘Management of maxillofacial problems in self-inflicted rifle wounds’,
Annals of Plastic Surgery, Vol. 53, Issue 2, pp.111–117
28 Branas, C. et al (2004), ‘Firearm homicide and firearm suicide: Opposite but equal’, Public Health
Reports, Vol. 119, Issue 2, pp. 114–124
29 Simkin, S et al (2003), ‘Seasonality in suicide: A study of farming suicides in England and Wales’,
Crisis, Vol. 24, Issue 3, pp. 93–97
30 WHO figures, updated June 2004. Available at: www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/
charts/en/
31 US Centre for Disease Control, WISQARS Injury Mortality Reports, 1999-2002, US Centre for
Injury Prevention and Control. Available at: webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_sy.html
32 See, for example, the US Think First National Injury Prevention Foundation fact sheet on violence
prevention. Available at: www.thinkfirst.org/teens/ViolencePrevention.asp
33 WHO fact sheet on self-directed violence. Available at: www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/
violence/world_report/factsheets/en/selfdirectedviolfacts.pdf
34 Kellermann, Arthur et al (1992), ‘Suicide in the home in relation to gun ownership’, New England
Journal of Medicine, Vol. 327, Issue 7, pp. 467–472
35 Wintemute, Garen et al (1999), ‘Mortality among recent purchasers of handguns’, New England
Journal of Medicine, Vol. 341, Issue 21, pp. 1583–1589
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