The Impact of Mass Shootings on Attitudes toward Gun Restrictions [PDF]
Socius, 2021 Is the American public more likely to favor stricter gun legislation in the aftermath of deadly mass shootings? The authors leverage the occurrence of several mass shootings during multiple survey waves of the General Social Survey between 1987 and 2018 ...
Arun Frey, David S. Kirk
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The Contagion of Mass Shootings: The Interdependence of Large-Scale Massacres and Mass Media Coverage [PDF]
Statistics and Public Policy, 2021 Mass public shootings have generated significant levels of fear in the recent years, with many observers criticizing the media for fostering a moral panic, if not an actual rise in the frequency of such attacks. Scholarly research suggests that the media
James Alan Fox +4 more
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The Economics of Mass Shootings [PDF]
, 2019 We perform an empirical investigation of the socioeconomic determinants and consequences of all mass shootings in the U.S. from 2000 to 2015. We first manually search for and collect information on perpetrators. We find that approximately 40% (45%) of shooters were in financial distress (unemployed or out of the labor force) at the moment of the ...
Brodeur, Abel, Yousaf, Hasin
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Income Inequality, Household Income, and Mass Shooting in the United States
Frontiers in Public Health, 2018 Mass shootings are becoming a more common occurrence in the United States. Data show that mass shootings increased steadily over the past nearly 50 years.
Joseph F. Cabrera, Roy Kwon
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Traders, guns, and money: The effects of mass shootings on stock prices of firearm manufacturers in the U.S. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 We investigate how mass shootings influence the stock price of firearms manufacturers. While it is well known that mass shootings lead to increased firearms sales, the response from financial markets is unclear. On one hand, given the observed short-term
Anandasivam Gopal, Brad N Greenwood
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Addressing Mass Shootings in a New Light. [PDF]
Cureus, 2020 Locations change, casualties change, but the choice of weapon remains the same: firearms. With mass shootings gaining continuous limelight, we aim through this article to provide the readers an overview of the perpetrator's profile, along with various opinions proposed by the media, government, National Rifle Association (NRA), and health professionals.
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Contagion in Mass Killings and School Shootings. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Several past studies have found that media reports of suicides and homicides appear to subsequently increase the incidence of similar events in the community, apparently due to the coverage planting the seeds of ideation in at-risk individuals to commit ...
Sherry Towers +4 more
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Cumulative and co-occurring strains among mass public shooting perpetrators: implications for violence prevention [PDF]
Injury EpidemiologyBackground Mass public shootings represent a significant source of fatal and nonfatal injury in the United States. This study examines patterns of strain among individuals who carried out these events, with attention to the prevalence, co-occurrence, and
Jaclyn Schildkraut +2 more
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The Effect of Mass Shootings on Daily Emotions Is Limited by Time, Geographic Proximity, and Political Affiliation [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021 Patrick Sharkey, Yinzhi Shen
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Potential Determinants of Mass Shooting Perpetration and Casualties: A Systematic Review [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2023 Introduction: In the United States (US), mass shootings could be regarded as a public health issue due to their ubiquitous and public nature. Social-ecological models, commonly used to explain health behaviours, can contribute to the understanding of ...
Wit Wichaidit
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