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Adding information regarding public health dimension of gun legislation.Bcapdevi (talk)22:20, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It might be helpful to add a section titled "Public Health" to reference a 2022 correspondence between researchers at the. University of Michigan and the New England Journal of Medicine which states that "generational investments are being made in the prevention of firearm violence, including new funding opportunities from the CDC and the National Institutes of Health." The correspondence refers to "funding for the prevention of community violence (that) has been proposed in federal infrastructure legislation" and the researchers emphasize the significance of such policy measures as a preventative public health solution in light of data indicating rising child mortality as a result of firearm related incidents, citing statistical evidence of firearm-related deaths replacing motor vehicle accidents as the leading cause of child mortality in 2020.
Would this information be a helpful addition? The source is at the URL:https://doi.org/10.1056%2FNEJMc2201761.— Precedingunsigned comment added byBcapdevi (talk •contribs)22:26, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The map is wrong. It shows Austria as "permissive" but the list has Switzerland, not Austria. I think Austria used to be permissive but the EU set a stop to that? But it looks like a data error to me.— Precedingunsigned comment added by134.134.139.73 (talk)13:11, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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TheIreland section is completely made up. Legislation in Ireland, either the Republic or Northern Ireland, was not driven by the Troubles, the IRA, ending conflicts between Protestants and Catholics, or the 1922 Irish Civil War. It was enacted in both jurisdictions in the normal course of lawmaking. There is nothing to distinguish Ireland from any other country in this respect. Also, the two refs provided in no way support the text. I am removing the section.Scolaire (talk)17:53, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
