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Gun Ownership and Gun Control

2021
By some estimates, it is reckoned that there are close to 1 billion firearms in existence in the world today and 85%
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Gun Ownership

2019
Abstract Chapter 30 includes cases related to gun ownership. The first two cases (District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago) focus on the Constitutional basis for gun ownership generally, while the others (Tyler v. Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Department and Wollschlaeger v.
Jeremy Colley, Heather Ellis Cucolo
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Gun Ownership and Gun Purchasing

2020
Much of the debate over mass shootings has centered on the broader topics of gun ownership and gun purchase. This chapter details what is currently known and unknown about gun ownership in the U.S., including why individuals choose to own guns and the demographics of gun owners.
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Black and White Demographic Patterns of Gun Ownership and Suicide, 2021

Archives of Suicide Research
Objective We use 2021 data to compare the demographic patterns of adult White and Black gun ownership with their respective race-specific rates of firearm, non-firearm and total suicide, and the percentage of suicides using firearms.
D. Hemenway, Deborah Azrael, Catherine Barber, Samuel Fischer, Matthew Miller   +4 more
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Reexamining the Evidence on Gun Ownership and Homicide Using Proxy Measures of Ownership

Social Science Research Network, 2022
Limited by the lack of data on gun ownership in the United States, ecological research linking firearms ownership rates to homicide often relies on proxy measures of ownership.
Karim Chalak, Daniel Kim, Megan Miller, John V. Pepper   +3 more
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Feminism and Firearms: Gun Ownership, Gun Carrying, and Women’s Empowerment

Sociological perspectives, 2021
In this article, I use the 2018 Guns in American Life Survey (GALS) to investigate the relationship between feminist identity, gun ownership, gun carrying, and women’s empowerment.
Margaret S. Kelley
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USA Suicides Compared to Other Western Countries in the 21st Century: Is there a Relationship with Gun Ownership?

Archives of Suicide Research, 2022
Objectives Causes of suicide are complex indicating a nation’s psycho-socio-economic well-being hence this population-based study explores whether USA suicides worsened compared to nineteen Other Western Countries (OWC) being possibly related to gun ...
C. Pritchard, Lars Hansen, Rosslyn Dray, Jalil Sharif   +3 more
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Examining the Relevance of Contextual Gun Ownership on Fatal Police Shootings

Justice quarterly, 2021
Police use of deadly force represents a pressing public policy issue with implications for police-community relationships and equitable access to justice.
Keller G. Sheppard, Gregory M. Zimmerman, Emma E. Fridel   +2 more
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Suicide in the Home in Relation to Gun Ownership

New England Journal of Medicine, 1992
It has been suggested that limiting access to firearms could prevent many suicides, but this belief is controversial. To assess the strength of the association between the availability of firearms and suicide, we studied all suicides that took place in the homes of victims in Shelby County, Tennessee, and King County, Washington, over a 32-month period.
A L, Kellermann, F P, Rivara, G, Somes, D T, Reay, J, Francisco, J G, Banton, J, Prodzinski, C, Fligner, B B, Hackman   +8 more
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Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: “Suicide,” Black Gun Ownership, and Restoring Black Masculinity on Black Arts Movement Stages

Theatre Journal, 2022
:The 1960s and ’70s witnessed hundreds of race-related uprisings across major US cities. Often provoked by white-authored shootings of Black people, these rebellions galvanized a generation of activists—including Black Arts Movement dramatists Amiri ...
L. L. Forsgren
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