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Differences in reasons for secure and unsecure firearm storage: Results from a representative cross-sectional study of nine states

Preventive Medicine Reports
Objectives: To examine factors that differentiate firearm owners who endorse specific reasons for secure and unsecure firearm storage. Methods: A subsample of firearm-owning adults (n = 3,119) drawn from a representative sample of adults (n = 7,785 ...
Michael D. Anestis, Allison E. Bond, Daniel C. Semenza   +2 more
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Spatio-temporal patterns of gun violence in Syracuse, New York 2009-2015.

PLoS ONE, 2017
Gun violence in the United States of America is a large public health problem that disproportionately affects urban areas. The epidemiology of gun violence reflects various aspects of an infectious disease including spatial and temporal clustering.
David A Larsen, Sandra Lane, Timothy Jennings-Bey, Arnett Haygood-El, Kim Brundage, Robert A Rubinstein   +5 more
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Who bought a gun during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States?: Associations with QAnon beliefs, right-wing political attitudes, intimate partner violence, antisocial behavior, suicidality, and mental health and substance use problems.

PLoS ONE, 2023
There was a large spike in gun purchases and gun violence during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. We used an online U.S. national survey (N = 1036) to examine the characteristics of people who purchased a gun between March ...
Brian M Hicks, Catherine Vitro, Elizabeth Johnson, Carter Sherman, Mary M Heitzeg, C Emily Durbin, Edelyn Verona   +6 more
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Gun violence prevention policy: Perceived and actual levels of gun owner support

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2023
Gun violence prevention is often viewed as polarizing, although gun owners actually support many gun safety policies. The aim of this paper was to investigate the relationship between gun owners' perceptions of other gun owners' support for gun policies ...
Kathleen L. Grene, Amani S. Dharani, Michael B. Siegel   +2 more
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Firearm injury hospitalizations and handgun purchaser licensing laws: longitudinal evaluation of state-level purchaser licensure requirements on firearm violence, 2000–2016

Injury Epidemiology
Background Handgun purchaser licensing (HPL) laws mandate individuals to obtain a license from law enforcement before buying a firearm. Research indicates these laws effectively reduce various forms of fatal firearm violence, including homicides ...
Mitchell L. Doucette, Nicholas S. Meyerson, Cassandra K. Crifasi, Elizabeth Wagner, Daniel W. Webster   +4 more
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Rooting Out Gun Violence

New England Journal of Medicine, 2016
Here we are again. Less than a year ago, an editorial in the Journal by Kassirer reexamined the massive public health problem of gun violence in the United States,1 and a Perspective article by Sacks, born of a personal tragedy, lamented the defunding of research on firearm-injury prevention.2 Kassirer called for electing “lawmakers at all levels of ...
Debra, Malina, Stephen, Morrissey, Edward W, Campion, Mary Beth, Hamel, Jeffrey M, Drazen   +4 more
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America Under the Gun: A 50-State Analysis of Gun Violence and its Link to Weak State Gun Laws [PDF]

, 2013
n the aftermath of mass shootings and other gun-related tragedies, there is often a surge of interest on the part of community leaders, social-science researchers, and elected officials to root out the causes of gun violence in an effort to prevent such ...
Arkadi Gerney, Charles Posner, Chelsea Parsons   +2 more
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Alignment between self- and perceived peer support for specific firearm policies: Results from a representative survey of adults in nine U.S. states

Preventive Medicine Reports
Objective: Despite widespread support for various firearm policies, minimal progress has been made in enacting these policies. One potential explanation is the misperception of peer support for firearm policies among individuals with differing political ...
Michael D. Anestis, Jennifer Paruk, Jayna Moceri-Brooks, Shelby L. Bandel, Allison E. Bond, Daniel C. Semenza   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gun Violence, Policing, and Young Communities of Color [PDF]

, 2016
Young people of color are leading the response to recent instances of gun violence. Young people do not all experience gun violence at the same rate nor do they feel its consequences evenly.
Cathy J. Cohen, Jon C. Rogowski, Matthew Luttig   +2 more
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Demographic differences in perceived effectiveness for policies to prevent school shootings: results from a representative survey in New Jersey

Injury Epidemiology
Objective To determine what firearm policies New Jersey residents believe will prevent school shootings and the extent to which this varies by sex, firearm ownership status, and political affiliation.
Michael Anestis, Jayna Moceri-Brooks, Allison Bond, Daniel Semenza   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source