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Most of the attention of the public and of research into firearm-related harm has focused on intentional rather than unintentional injuries and fatalities. When thinking of harms involving guns, people envision murders, robberies, and other crimes with guns or the use of guns in suicide attempts.
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Gabor, T. (2016). Unintentional Deaths: Unavoidable or Preventable?. In: Confronting Gun Violence in America. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33723-4_7
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