…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…
Expert Commentary
…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…
Expert Commentary
…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…
Expert Commentary
…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…
Expert Commentary
…background checks and mental illness, the online gun market, shooting sprees, carrying weapons on campus and analyses of existing gun-control legislation. Keywords: gun deaths, firearms, violence, murder, gun control…
Expert Commentary
…and levels of faculty who wish to stave off permitting lawful guns on their campuses. Further, our study suggests that faculty overwhelmingly feel that allowing guns on campuses would change…
Expert Commentary
…firearms at home (8.9%) or carry guns outside the home (1.5%). These data document associations of numerous common mental disorders and combinations of angry behavior with gun access. Because only…
Expert Commentary
…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…
Expert Commentary
…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…
Expert Commentary
…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…
Expert Commentary