…training tools. Some writers have called violent video games “murder simulators.” Can violent games “train” a person to shoot a gun? There are theoretical reasons to believe they can. Participants…
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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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…which almost always believes crime rates are up. The Pew Research Center has highlighted how the public seems unaware of the decline in gun violence, while Gallup continues to note…
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…inaccurate reporting and an uninformed electorate. Clark Merrefield looked at research on the efficacy of gun buyback programs, which allow gun owners to trade their firearms for vouchers that can…
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…for information on mental illness, suicide among veterans and firearm violence. For more on the gun policy debate and its relationship to these issues, see the article “The Gun Toll…
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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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…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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…were significantly associated with citywide reductions in overall crimes, total assaults, gun assaults and nuisance crimes (p <0.001). Building remediations were also significantly associated with reductions in violent gun crimes…
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…declined by 4.2 percent, gun assaults declined by 2.7 percent, and burglaries declined by 6.3 percent. “Blighted and vacant urban land affects people’s perceptions of safety, and their actual, physical…
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…regional trauma center. On average, there were 34 gunshot patients treated every three months before the policing changes, and 26 quarterly gunshot patients afterward. “The ways in which police there…
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