Pew Research: Gun rights, abortion, gay marriage views over time
…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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Reassessing the association between gun availability and homicide rates at the cross-national level
…“suggest that the nature of the relationship between gun availability, gun homicide and homicide is not stable across nations. Instead, the strength and nature of the relationship between gun availability…
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Profiling gun dealers, pawnbrokers and illegal weapons sales
…54.9%) believed that ‘it is too easy for criminals to get guns in this country.’” “Most respondents were gun dealers (380, 64.3%), with significant variation by region; dealers accounted for…
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The 2022 midterm elections: Research and tip sheets to help you cover the news
…they don’t always cover the interaction between inflation and earnings. Gun buybacks: What the research says: Gun buybacks allow gun owners to trade their firearms to law enforcement, no questions…
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These were the most-read pieces on The Journalist’s Resource in 2022
…months. Popularity is based on unique page views during this time period. 1. Gun buybacks: What the research says Gun buybacks allow gun owners to trade their firearms to law…
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How school shootings hurt student achievement and enrollment
…of our tip sheets, “7 Things Journalists Should Know About Guns,” briefs journalists on basic terminology and warns them about some of the pitfalls of covering gun issues. Columbia University’s…
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How did President Biden go from zero to hero in the public arena so quickly?
…he should not run for re-election in 2024, intimating that he was too old and unpopular. Then, things shifted. Democrats pushed through several major bills, including one on gun safety, the CHIPS…
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Election Beat 2022: How state laws threaten and weaken voting rights in the US
…changed its voter eligibility rules. Texas’s new law required voters to have an approved form of photo ID. On the approved list was a concealed handgun license. Omitted from the…
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How they did it: Philadelphia Inquirer reporters expose how police officers abused a disability benefit
…who are injured and temporarily disabled in the line of duty. The reporters revealed that as Philadelphia was suffering record levels of gun violence, an astonishing number of police officers…
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When the world comes to your community: 7 tips for reporting on the local impacts of international trade
…using ImportGenius. Here is a question that could generate story ideas: Did any local businesses, such as a gun store, import goods, such as ammunition, from Russia before its war…
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