Covering gun violence in America: Tips from German Lopez
…a senior correspondent at Vox focusing on criminal justice, guns and drugs. Following his talk, Lopez sat down with Journalist’s Resource to discuss gun violence in the U.S., where mass…
…a senior correspondent at Vox focusing on criminal justice, guns and drugs. Following his talk, Lopez sat down with Journalist’s Resource to discuss gun violence in the U.S., where mass…
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…gun sales are regulated while other gun sales are unregulated. Between one-fifth and one-quarter of legal gun sales are unregulated, according to the latest research. A gun store owner has…
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…guns move between states. Some other resources that may be helpful: This 2017 report from the Pew Research Center examines gun ownership in the U.S. and Americans’ attitudes toward gun…
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…future gun or family violence legislation. A second important area for future research is investigating why domestic batterers are sensitive to federal gun restrictions.” State-level gun restrictions related to intimate…
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…preventing gun violence at schools, writing that “prevention entails more than security measures and begins long before a gunman comes to school.” Universal background checks, removing guns from people with…
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…access to guns to arming teachers. But what are schools already doing to prepare against gun violence? How do these preparations affect their students? Are these measures effective? We’ve collected…
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…gun violence. Among the study population in two large Florida counties, we found that 62 percent of violent gun crime arrests and 28 percent of gun suicides involved individuals not…
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…check is required at gun stores across the United States. But individual states set their own laws about private transactions, including at gun shows (“the gun-show loophole”). Some states have…
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…the gun, friends and family members were the most common source (34%), followed by drug dealers or other black-market sources (30.4%). Only 13.4% got the gun directly from a gun…
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…49% supported gun rights versus 45% favoring gun control. Support for gun ownership among both men and women has increased from 2008, with a 14 percentage point increase in support…
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