…interest is a June 2015 research roundup that focuses on mass murder, shooting sprees and rampage violence. Keywords: gun safety, gun control, firearm legislation, firearm injuries, weapons, child safety…
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…restrictions by 75 percent in states with Republican-controlled legislatures. We find no significant effect of mass shootings on laws enacted when there is a Democrat-controlled legislature.” Characteristics of perpetrators…
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…the term “gun control” with a threat to their rights, whereas they might interpret “gun safety” differently — as the broad concept of avoiding gun accidents or mass shootings. Journalists…
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…with respect to suicide rates were those that reduced overall gun availability, including permit requirements and bans on sales to minors. Gun control policies that tried to keep high risk…
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…conclusions. Brad Plumer at the Washington Post‘s “WonkBlog” summarizes findings from a coalition of mayors — an advocacy group committed to gun control — who issued their own report. That…
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…and about half (49%) say supporting gun rights is more important than gun control. Members of America’s white working class are generally considered to be more conservative than the population…
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…four times more likely than women to commit suicide with a gun, while women were three times more likely to die in a gun-related homicide. In addition to the question…
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…comment threads — one person’s “rescue package” is another’s “bailout”; one side talks about “gun control” while another prefers “gun safety”; abortion activists dutifully line up in “pro-life” or “anti-choice”…
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…up — a rescue package or a bailout package, if it’s gun control or gun safety, pro-life or anti-choice. Since I first started on this, this has almost become the…
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Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Email In May 2013 the Pew Research Center released a survey that showed the significant gap between the American public’s beliefs about levels of gun violence…
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