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Loaded Questions: Internet Commenters’ Opinions on Physician-Patient Firearm Safety Conversations

open access: yesWestern Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2017
Introduction Medical and public health societies advocate that healthcare providers (HCPs) counsel at-risk patients to reduce firearm injury risk. Anonymous online media comments often contain extreme viewpoints and may therefore help in understanding ...
C. Knoepke   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Degradation strategies for structural characterization of insoluble synthetic polymers by mass spectrometry

open access: yesMass Spectrometry Reviews, EarlyView.
Abstract With the advent of soft ionization techniques such as electrospray (ESI) and matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) to produce intact gas‐phase ions from nonvolatile macromolecules, mass spectrometry has become an essential technique in the field of polymeric materials.
Thierry N. J. Fouquet   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Child Access Prevention Laws: Keeping Guns Out of Our Children\u27s Hands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This Note explores the Child Access Prevention ( CAP ) law and laws which are generally intended to limit children\u27s access to guns at home. The author proposes a model CAP law that should be enacted in the United States.
Shaffer, Rachel
core   +1 more source

Receptiveness and Responsiveness Toward Using Social Media for Safe Firearm Storage Outreach: Mixed Methods Study (Preprint)

open access: yes, 2020
BACKGROUND Childhood and adolescent firearm injury and death rates have increased over the past decade and remain major public health concerns in the United States.
Esther Lam   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Interactional Pathways of Mass Killings: Toward a Novel Understanding of Rampage School Shootings

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Rampage school shootings, where students go to their own school to randomly kill classmates, teachers, friends, and strangers, are among the most drastic types of human behavior. While research increasingly points to interaction dynamics as being key for the emergence of crime and violence, scholars have not yet systematically studied interaction ...
Anne Nassauer
wiley   +1 more source

Commonsense Solutions: State Gun Laws to Protect Kids from Unintended Shootings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This report provides a series of proposals that state legislators should enact in their states to help protect children from improperly stored firearms.

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Commentary: Evidence to Guide Gun Violence Prevention in America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Gun violence is a major threat to the public's health and safety in the United States. The articles in this volume's symposium on gun violence reveal the scope of the problem and new trends in mortality rates from gunfire.
Daniel W. Webster
core   +1 more source

Banal Radicalism: Free Spaces and the Routinization of Radical Practices in Far‐Right Movements

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do free spaces become radicalizing spaces? Studies of far‐right radicalism have highlighted the role of insulated movement spaces in radicalizing their members. In these spaces, participants can flaunt their radical ideas and infuse them into everyday practices, forming these ideas into comprehensive and resilient worldviews.
Oded Marom
wiley   +1 more source

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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Research and development of training pistols for laser shooting simulation system

open access: yesDefence Technology, 2020
Firearm shooting simulators are effective means for training the personnel in armed forces, police and shooting athletes. Shooter–weapon is a complex biomechanical system, therefore the best training quality is achieved when the process of a weapon shot ...
Algimantas Fedaravičius   +3 more
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