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Social-Ecological Predictors of Violent Firearm Use Among Youth [PDF]

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences
Firearm-related violent injuries are a leading cause of death among U.S. youth, yet little is known about what predicts youths’ violent use of firearms. This study examined how hypothesized predictors across social-ecological domains, identified through ...
Krista R. Mehari   +5 more
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Quantitative Literacy and Guns

open access: yesNumeracy, 2021
Briggs, William. 2017. How America Got Its Guns: A History of the Gun Violence Crisis; (Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press). 352 pp. Paperback: ISBN 978-0-8263-5813-4. E-book ISBN 978-0-8263-5814-1.
William Briggs
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Guns and the Limits of Numeracy: Review of How America Got Its Guns: A History of the Gun Violence Crisis, by William Briggs.

open access: yesNumeracy, 2021
William Briggs. 2017. How America Got Its Guns: A History of the Gun Violence Crisis; (Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press). Paperback: ISBN 978-0-8263-5813-4. E-book ISBN 978-0-8263-5814-1.
Joel Best
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Writing About Death, Killing and Nonhuman Animals: An Interview with David Vann

open access: yesMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2023
Born in 1966 in Alaska, David Vann writes novels and short stories which were awarded several prizes. In this interview, the author talks about his relationship with non-human animals, the ecological crisis, death and guns.
Claire Cazajous-Augé
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Is shooting a sport? The outline of sport shooting in Poland as a subject matter of the sociology of sport

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica, 2020
The main goals of this text are to answer the question of whether sport shooting should be treated as a sport and to convince readers that shooting can be an interesting subject within the sociology of sport.
Piotr Adam Zwarycz
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The Collapse of the Fascist Citadel

open access: yesУправленческое консультирование, 2020
The article is dedicated to the Battle of Kursk. The goal is to show the courage and heroism demonstrated by Soviet soldiers in the name of saving their homeland during the Great Patriotic War, as well as the ability of our national economic complex and ...
V. P. Gridnev
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Development of means of combating armored vehicles at the forefront of defense. The first half of the 1930s. Based on the materials of the Soviet military press [PDF]

open access: yesОмский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2022
In the article on the materials of the military press of the first half of the 1930s. the author analyzes the change in views on the fight against armored vehicles in the specified period.
M. S. Novikov
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The Stock and Flow of U.S. Firearms: Results from the 2015 National Firearms Survey

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2017
Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. civilian gun stock has grown from approximately 192 million (65 million handguns) to approximately 265 million (113 million handguns). In 2015, gun owners owned more weapons and were more likely to own both handguns and long
Deborah Azrael   +3 more
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The effect of training interventions on the shooting performance of military and sports fields: A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

open access: yesفصلنامه ابن سینا, 2023
Background and aims: Shooting plays an important role among the acquired skills of soldiers and is considered one of the main criteria for measuring their capabilities.
Esmail Karami   +3 more
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Prohibited Possessors and the Law: How Inmates in Los Angeles Jails Understand Firearm and Ammunition Regulations

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2017
Using data from 140 interviews with individuals detained in the Los Angeles County Jail system, this article examines what gun offenders know about gun and ammunition regulation in California.
Melissa Barragan   +6 more
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