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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 +11 more
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Salud, Ciencia y Tecnología, 2023 Ecuador faces a critical situation with increasing homicides and loss of state authority. Therefore, the article examines the authorization of gun ownership and carrying in Ecuador under Decree 707 issued by President Guillermo Lasso in April 2023, in ...
Mesias Elías Machado Maliza +2 more
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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 +5 more
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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 +2 more
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God and Guns: Examining Religious Influences on Gun Control Attitudes in the United States
Religions, 2018 Mass shootings in the United States have generated significant media coverage and public concern, invigorating debates over gun control. Media coverage and academic research on gun control attitudes and reactions to mass shootings have paid little ...
Stephen M. Merino
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‘Firearming’ Fairytales: NRA and Gun Culture in American Fan-Fiction
J-Lalite, 2022 Gun issue becomes one of the most polemic issues in the United States alongside racism. Regardless, the last major gun control legislation to make it into law was the assault weapons ban in 1994 as part of a larger crime-related bill approved during Bill
Bhakti Satrio Nugroho
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Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2022 Historical evidence suggests that White Americans' support for gun rights (i.e., opposition to gun control) is challenged by Black Americans exercising their legal rights to guns (e.g., The Black Panther Party and the Mulford Act of 1967).
Gerald D. Higginbotham +2 more
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American preferences for “smart” guns versus traditional weapons: Results from a nationwide survey
Preventive Medicine Reports, 2016 This study examines Americans' preferences regarding smart guns. The study builds on prior research by including previously unexamined factors, specifically victimization and comfort sharing gun ownership status with a doctor.
Lacey Nicole Wallace
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Gun Culture 2.0: The Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2022 I trace the evolution of gun culture in the U.S., starting with the prehistorical normality and significance of projectile weaponry among Homo sapiens, then turning to the largely practical use of firearms as tools in the Colonial, Revolutionary, and ...
D. Yamane
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Online interest regarding violent attacks, gun control, and gun purchase: A causal analysis.
PLoS ONE, 2018 BackgroundIncreased interest about gun ownership and gun control are oftentimes driven by informational shocks in a common factor, namely violent attacks, and the perceived need for higher levels of safety.
Laura H Gunn +3 more
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