Kids in the Line of Fire
Children, Handguns, and Homicide
Table of Contents
Introduction
Appendix
One: State Ranking by Rate of Child Victims Murdered With a Handgun,
1995-1999
Appendix
Two: State Ranking by Rate of Children Who Murdered With a Handgun,
1995-1999
Appendix
Three: State Ranking by Percentage of Homicides With Child Victims in
Which a Handgun Was Used, 1995-1999
Appendix Four:
Additional Information on the 15 States with the Highest Rates of Child
Victims Murdered With a Handgun, 1995-1999
Maryland
Louisiana
Illinois
California
Nevada
Arizona
Missouri
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Oklahoma
Mississippi
Pennsylvania
New
Mexico
Texas
Endnotes
This is the full
text of the November 2001 Violence Policy Center study Kids in the
Line of Fire: Children, Handguns, and Homicide. For information
on how to order a hard copy of this study, please return to the publications
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All contents � 2001 Violence Policy Center
The Violence Policy Center is a national non-profit educational foundation
that conducts research on violence in America and works to develop violence-reduction
policies and proposals. The Center examines the role of firearms in America,
conducts research on firearms violence, and explores new ways to decrease
firearm-related death and injury.
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