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Racism, gun ownership and gun control: biased attitudes in US whites may influence policy decisions. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
ObjectiveRacism is related to policies preferences and behaviors that adversely affect blacks and appear related to a fear of blacks (e.g., increased policing, death penalty).
Kerry O'Brien, Walter Forrest, Dermot Lynott, Michael Daly   +3 more
doaj   +6 more sources

Historical prevalence of slavery predicts contemporary American gun ownership. [PDF]

PNAS Nexus, 2022
HISTORICAL PREVALENCE OF SLAVERY PREDICTS CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN GUN OWNERSHIP Historical prevalence of slavery predicts contemporary American gun ownership (-
Buttrick N, Mazen J.
europepmc   +3 more sources

To Provide or Protect? Masculinity, Economic Precarity, and Protective Gun Ownership in the United States [PDF]

Sociological Perspectives, 2022
Tara D. Warner, David F Warner, Tristan Bridges   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Some Fear, More Loathing? Threats and Anxieties Shaping Protective Gun Ownership and Gun Carry in the U.S. [PDF]

Journal of Crime and Justice, 2022
Tara D. Warner, Trent Steidley
exaly   +2 more sources

Sexual Orientation Differences in Gun Ownership and Beliefs About Gun Safety Policy, General Social Survey 2010–2016 [PDF]

Violence and Gender, 2020
John Blosnich, Susan D. Cochran, Robert W S Coulter   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Development and Assessment of a Social Media–Based Construct of Firearm Ownership: Computational Derivation and Benchmark Comparison

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2023
BackgroundGun violence research is characterized by a dearth of data available for measuring key constructs. Social media data may offer a potential opportunity to significantly reduce that gap, but developing methods for deriving
Carole Roan Gresenz, Lisa Singh, Yanchen Wang, Jaren Haber, Yaguang Liu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Visualizing How Race, Support for Black Lives Matter, and Gun Ownership Shape Views of the U.S. Capitol Insurrection of January 6, 2021

Socius, 2022
Protest movements linked to racial inequality in policing and antigovernment sentiment have roiled the United States in recent years. In this visualization, the authors examine how race, support for Black Lives Matter (BLM), and gun ownership predict ...
Rebecca Bucci, David S. Kirk, Robert J. Sampson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modeling recent gun purchases: A social epidemiology of the pandemic arms race

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2021
In this paper, we document the social patterning of recent gun purchases to advance a contemporary social epidemiology of the pandemic arms race. We employ cross-sectional survey data from the 2020 Health, Ethnicity and Pandemic Study, which included a ...
Terrence D. Hill, Ming Wen, Christopher G. Ellison, Guangzhen Wu, Benjamin Dowd-Arrow, Dejun Su   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Brief use of a specific gun in a violent game does not affect attitudes towards that gun [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2016
Although much attention has been paid to the question of whether violent video games increase aggressive behaviour, little attention has been paid to how such games might encourage antecedents of gun violence.
Joseph Hilgard, Christopher R. Engelhardt, Bruce D. Bartholow   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

“We know what's going on in our community”: A qualitative analysis identifying community assets that deter gun violence

SSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2023
Communities of color are disproportionately impacted by gun violence. Unlocking potential community-led solutions could be the key to quelling the gun violence epidemic and its impact on these communities. In this qualitative study, we explored community
Allison Parsons, Tyler D. Harvey, Stephane D. Andrade, Nadine Horton, Lauren Brinkley-Rubenstein, George Wood, Louisa W. Holaday, Carley Riley, Virginia T. Spell, Andrew V. Papachristos, Emily A. Wang, Brita Roy   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source