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The Effects of Cueing and Framing on Youth Attitudes towards Gun Control and Gun Rights

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2018
I analyze attitudes towards gun control from a recent survey of American high school students. For students who most closely identify as Republicans, cueing them to think about prior school shootings increases their agreement that armed staff in schools ...
Stephen Wu
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How Cities Can Combat Illegal Guns and Gun Violence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Though gun violence peaked in American cities in the early 1990s, firearms are still used in more than 30 homicides per day in the U.S.One major challenge is how to stanch the flow of guns to criminals. Researchers from the School's Center for Gun Policy
Daniel W. Webster   +2 more
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Expanding Brady Background Checks To Internet Gun Sales In Oregon: Why Brady Background Checks Work And Why It's Time For Oregon To Finish The Job [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
A new Brady report shows how dangerous loopholes allow criminals to buy guns easily online without a background check. This report demonstrates why Brady background checks on gun purchases are an effective policy that prevents gun crime and saves lives ...

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Variation in Extreme Risk Protection Order Use Among Urban, Suburban, and Rural ZIP Codes in Maryland: A Descriptive Study

open access: yesInquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs) are a tool used to temporarily remove access to firearms from those who may pose a risk of violence to themselves or others.
Mia Aassar MPH   +4 more
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The Culture of Gun Violence: An Active Learning Exercise

open access: yesMedEdPORTAL, 2014
Introduction Effectively addressing and preventing gun violence requires multidisciplinary collaboration between public health and health care providers.
Shaun Hamilton   +2 more
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An Ethical Duty to Charge Batterers Appropriately [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Access to a gun increases the likelihood that a batterer will kill his victim. Studies indicate that the risk of fatality increases five‐fold when a firearm is available during an incident of domestic abuse.
Lininger, Tom
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“Let It Go:” Finding Possibilities for New Movement Strategies after Failure

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies
After decades of limited action on gun control policies particularly on the federal level, the gun violence prevention movement in the United States has largely failed to reach the goals it had set out for itself.
Mila Seppälä 
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Firearm violence in the USA: a frank discussion on an American public health crisis—The Kansas City Firearm Violence Symposium

open access: yesTrauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2019
Kansas City is a microcosm for USA. Although Kansas City shows a relatively diverse population, it is one that is segregated along the lines of race and income. This is an inequity that is common to all cities across the country. With this inequity comes
Marie Crandall   +5 more
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Assault Weapons Revisited: Policy Options for Regulating Rifles, Shotguns, and Other Firearms 20 Years After the Passage of the Assault Weapons Ban [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
20 years after President Bill Clinton signed the federal assault weapons ban into law in September 1994 and a decade after Congress allowed that law to lapse -- the question of whether and how to regulate particularly lethal firearms is no longer the ...
Arkadi Gerney, Chelsea Parsons
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Utilizing the "Buyer Power" Strategy to Reform the Gun Industry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In the past, advocates for tougher gun laws have turned to federal, state, and local legislatures for solutions. For a variety of reasons, however, it has been difficult to enact progressive gun policies into law.

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