…gun violence in domestic violence, or in minority communities, that often goes ignored,” he said. Even while examining links between different types of gun violence, it’s important for journalists to…
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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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…reducing gun violence, particularly cracking down on unregulated internet gun sales. In short, Obama has directed the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to require firearms sellers to…
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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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…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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…legal 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…
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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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…success of 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…
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…with reduced gun deaths, nine with increased gun deaths and seven inconclusive. The three laws most associated with reduced gun deaths required universal background checks to purchase a gun, background checks…
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…guns and guns used in suicide, that firearms are used defensively many times per day, and that some types of targeted police interventions may effectively lower gun crime and violence….
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