Associations between Gun Ownership and Firearm Homicide Rates in US States. [PDF]
J Urban Health, 2023 The United States combine high rates of firearm homicides with high gun prevalence. In the past, a significant positive association was found between the two.
Christopoulos K.
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A Statistical Analysis of the Impact of Gun Ownership on Mass Shootings in the USA Between 2013 and 2022. [PDF]
J Urban HealthMass shootings (incidents with four or more people shot in a single event, not including the shooter) are becoming more frequent in the United States, posing a significant threat to public health and safety in the country.
Daraklis M +4 more
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Historical prevalence of slavery predicts contemporary American gun ownership. [PDF]
PNAS Nexus, 2022 American gun-owners, uniquely, view firearms as a means of keeping themselves safe from dangers both physical and psychological. We root this belief in the experience of White Southerners during Reconstruction—a moment when a massive upsurge in the ...
Buttrick N, Mazen J.
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State firearm laws, gun ownership, and K-12 school shootings: Implications for school safety. [PDF]
J Sch Violence, 2022 Limited research has been conducted on the state-level factors that may be associated with intentional school shootings. We obtained school shooting data from the Washington Post that identified any act of intentional interpersonal gunfire in a K-12 ...
Reeping PM +8 more
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Sexual Orientation Differences in Gun Ownership and Beliefs About Gun Safety Policy, General Social Survey 2010–2016 [PDF]
Violence and Gender, 2020 Kirsty A Clark +2 more
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Reimagining public safety: Public opinion on police reform and gun violence prevention by race and gun ownership in the United States. [PDF]
Prev Med, 2022 Inequitable experiences of community gun violence and victimization by police use of force led to nationwide calls to “reimagine public safety” in 2020. In January 2021, we examined public support among U.S.
Ward JA +6 more
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Cross-State Relationship of Firearm Violence Between Police and Civilians: Gun Ownership as a Common Denominator. [PDF]
J Urban HealthJain V, Hemenway D.
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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 +4 more
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The social costs of gun ownership [PDF]
Journal of Public Economics, 2006 Abstract This paper provides new estimates of the effect of household gun prevalence on homicide rates, and infers the marginal external cost of handgun ownership. The estimates utilize a superior proxy for gun prevalence, the percentage of suicides committed with a gun, which we validate.
Phillip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig
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Pictures of you: God images, gun ownership, and empowerment in the United States
Social Science Quarterly, 2023 Objective: In the current study, we seek to shed new light on the role of religion in American gun culture by considering whether images people hold of God affect the probability of gun ownership and the experience of empowerment through guns for ...
Laura Upenieks +2 more
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