Political violence, racial violence, and new gun ownership: results from the 2023 National Survey of Gun Policy [PDF]
Injury EpidemiologyBackground U.S. firearm sales surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, with many purchases by first-time firearm owners. The 2023 National Survey of Gun Policy sought to understand the public health implications of this surge by comparing the purchasing ...
Rebecca Valek +3 more
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To Provide or Protect? Masculinity, Economic Precarity, and Protective Gun Ownership in the United States [PDF]
Sociological Perspectives, 2022 Protection is now the modal motivation for gun ownership, and men continue to outnumber women among gun owners. While research has linked economic precarity (e.g., insecurity and anxiety) to gun ownership and attitudes, separating economic well-being ...
Tara D Warner +2 more
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Changing the narrative: Socioeconomic determinants, not gun ownership, drive global homicide rates across 237 countries and territories [PDF]
Dialogues in HealthIntentional homicide is defined as the unlawful taking of a human life with the intent to cause death or serious injury. Gun ownership is often at the forefront of debates regarding IH, but few have explored this relationship worldwide.
Rae-Anne Kastle +5 more
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Gun Ownership and Firearm-related Deaths [PDF]
American Journal of Medicine, 2013 A variety of claims about possible associations between gun ownership rates, mental illness burden, and the risk of firearm-related deaths have been put forward. However, systematic data on this issue among various countries remain scant. Our objective was to assess whether the popular notion "guns make a nation safer" has any merits.Data on gun ...
Sripal Bangalore, Franz H Messerli
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Suicide in Switzerland: why gun ownership can be deadly
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2023 There is a great deal of empirical evidence that owning a firearm increases the risk of dying from suicide. Most suicides are impulsive. Nearly 50% of survivors of suicide attempts report that they took less than 10 minutes between the decision to die ...
Wolfgang Stroebe
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Gun ownership and gun violence
Aggression and violent behaviorThere is a great deal of empirical evidence from the USA, but also internationally, that country-level gun ownership is positively associated with homicide and mass shooting rates. Because Switzerland appears to be an exception to this rule, having a high level of gun ownership but a very low homicide rate and practically no mass shootings, the Swiss ...
Stroebe, Wolfgang +2 more
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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 +3 more
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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 +2 more
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Differences in Perceptions of Gun-Related Safety by Race and Gun Ownership in the United States. [PDF]
J Law Med Ethics, 2023 Motivated by disparities in gun violence, sharp increases in gun ownership, and a changing gun policy landscape, we conducted a nationally representative survey of U.S.
Ward JA +4 more
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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
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