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Point, Click, Fire: An Investigation of Illegal Online Gun Sales [PDF]
, 2011 The internet revolution created extraordinary opportunities for commerce to be conducted at the click of a mouse. Instant access to almost unlimited choices and to vast communities of buyers and sellers is a principal asset of e-commerce.
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A Systematic Plan for Firearms Law Reform [PDF]
, 2013 Tragedy after tragedy has drawn the nation’s attention towards gun violence. Yet the murder of 20 school children in Newtown, CT has done more to drive the national dialogue on gun control than any preceding mass shooting, not to mention the endemic ...
Gostin, Lawrence O. +1 more
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Conceptualizing Resilience, Sustainability and Smartness for Building Fire Risk Management
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Resilience, sustainability, and smartness (ReSuSm) within the building construction sector impact, or are impacted by building fires in one way or another. Hence, consideration of ReSuSm for building fire risk management (BFRM) is imperative to enhance safety and mitigate adverse impacts.
Uttama Barua +3 more
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America's Gun Shows: Open Markets for Criminals [PDF]
, 2009 An estimated 5,000 gun shows are conducted in the United States every year. Federal law mandates that licensed dealers at these events perform background checks on purchasers before completing a sale.
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What guns mean: the symbolic lives of firearms
Palgrave Communications, 2019 This article presents an overview of the symbolic tensions underlying representations of firearms and gun-related violence. The essay frames central questions that deserve further interrogation: what larger social and political contexts surround guns ...
J. Metzl
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Rampage school shootings, where students go to their own school to randomly kill classmates, teachers, friends, and strangers, are among the most drastic types of human behavior. While research increasingly points to interaction dynamics as being key for the emergence of crime and violence, scholars have not yet systematically studied interaction ...
Anne Nassauer
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Teisė, 2020 The subject of this article are the legal and criminal aspects of regulating access to firearms. This issue has become extremely important in recent years for sociality. Furthermore, the availability of firearms has been widely discussed in Poland.
Łukasz Butryn
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Alaska Trauma Registry: Trauma Admissions Involving Firearms, 2009-2014 [PDF]
, 2016 This fact sheet presents data from the Alaska Trauma Registry (ATR) on characteristics of trauma admissions for the period 2009–2014 for injuries for which a firearm was the main mechanism of injury.
Parker, Khristy
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.In the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. election, the boundary between activism and extremism blurred, with election officials reporting violent threats and false accusations of election fraud. From a symbolic interactionist perspective, these attacks provide a unique lens for examining the consequences of being falsely labeled a criminal.
Steven Windisch
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Gun control and suicide: The impact of state firearm regulations, 1995–2004 [PDF]
Suicide is a major cause of preventable death. Restricting access to lethal means has been identified as an effective approach to suicide prevention, and firearms regulations are one way to reduce gun availability.
Antonio Rodríguez, Katherine Hempstead
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