Guns in the Household
- 7 October 1993
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 329 (15), 1117-1119
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199310073291510
Abstract
Last October several bizarre coincidences led to the death of a 16-year-old Japanese exchange student in a suburb of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The student and his American friend, looking for a Halloween party, missed the correct house by a few doors and rang the wrong doorbell. The exchange student, in the spirit of the holiday, was moving around in mimicry of John Travolta in the movie Saturday Night Fever, and the frightened woman who answered the door called to her husband to get his gun. The husband mistook a camera in the student's hand for a weapon, and when the . . .Keywords
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