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Volume 358:1421-1424 April 3, 2008 Number 14 Next

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It is 1992, and schoolmates Yoshihiro Hattori and Webb Haymaker have been invited to a Halloween party. Yoshi, a 16-year-old exchange student and avid dancer, wears a white tuxedo like John Travolta's in Saturday Night Fever. By mistake, they stop at a house up the block from their destination. No one answers the doorbell.

Inside are Rodney and Bonnie Peairs. She opens a side door momentarily, sees the boys, and yells to her husband, "Get the gun." He does (it is a .44 magnum Smith & Wesson revolver) and reopens the door. Yoshi and Webb, by now back at . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Wintemute is a professor of emergency medicine and director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento.

An interview with David Hemenway, professor of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, can be heard at www.nejm.org.

This article (10.1056/NEJMp0800859) was published at www.nejm.org on March 19, 2008.

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• Curfman, G. D., Morrissey, S., Drazen, J. M. (2008). Handgun Violence, Public Health, and the Law. NEJM 358: 1503-1504 [Full Text]