Firearm Injuries: Firearm Injury and Immigrant Males

firearm injuries: Three-quarters are unintentional, so these are accidents that happen, and about 25 per cent are intentional or assault,'' said senior author Dr, according to Huffington Post Canada. Astrid Guttmann, a pediatrician at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. Their study, published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, found there were 355 firearm injuries on average each year among children and youth, with about 23 to 25 or seven per cent resulting in death. When the researchers looked at provincial hospital emergency room records for gun-related injuries, they found Canadian-born youth, particularly males, had the highest rates of unintentional firearm injury 12 per 100,000 people versus about seven per 100,000 for immigrant males. But when it came to firearm injuries due to assault, immigrants and refugees were at much higher risk than their non-immigrant counterparts. A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal has found that nearly every day in Ontario, a young person is injured by a gun. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.