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How do mass shootings shape the social media discourse on guns in the US Congress? Causal discovery and topic modeling. [PDF]
PLOS Global Public HealthSocial media platforms have become a key tool for politicians to signal their policy positions and communicate about issues that are salient to them and their constituency. One such issue is gun violence.
Dmytro Bukhanevych +2 more
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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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The Economics of Mass Shootings [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 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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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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The double burden of stressful life events among professional nurses: public mass shootings during the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-BeingBackground This study explores nurses’ experiences amid the dual challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and public mass shootings, highlighting the emotional and professional strains they faced while providing care in crisis situations.
Ek-Uma Imkome
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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 impact of mass shootings on gun policy
Journal of Public Economics, 2020 Abstract There have been dozens of high-profile mass shootings in recent decades. This paper presents three main findings about the impact of mass shootings on gun policy. First, mass shootings evoke large policy responses. A single mass shooting leads to a 15% increase in the number of firearm bills introduced within a state in the year after a mass
Michael Luca +2 more
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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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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 Abstract We use data on all middle and high school aged children who survived a mass shooting incident on July 22, 2011 in Utoya, Norway, to understand how such events affect survivors, their families, and their peers. Using a difference-in-differences design to compare survivors to a matched control group, we find that in the short run children who ...
Bharadwaj, Prashant +3 more
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Visualizing the Rise and Seasonality of Mass Shootings in the U.S.
We visualize monthly mass shooting incidents in the United States from 2013 to 2022 by integrating data from five major databases, each employing different definitional boundaries.
Liz Munday +3 more
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