Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding
This ANNALS volume is a collection of new scholarly articles that address the current state of America's gun ownership, how it came to be, the distinct frames that scholars use to understand gun violence, and potential solutions to the social problems it creates. We offer up-to-date research that examines what works and what does not. From this, we suggest ways forward for research, policy ...
Firearm Ownership, Defensive Gun Usage, and Support for Gun Control
Introduction. Gun reform was a key policy issue of the 2020 presidential general election. President Biden and Democratic leaders have advocated for the enactment of "common sense" gun reform efforts, such as assault weapon bans, universal background checks, and increased resources to enforce current gun laws (Lucey, 2021).They believe that such reforms will help reduce the ...
State gun laws, gun ownership, and mass shootings in the US: cross
Introduction. Despite an increasing frequency of mass shootings in the US and the seemingly disproportionate occurrence of mass shootings in some states and not others, little research has been carried out to understand state level factors that could influence mass shootings. 1 A 2018 report pointed to only three studies that had examined associations between gun laws and mass shooting events ...
Saving lives by regulating guns: Evidence for policy
Fortunately, the flow of high-quality research has increased in recent years. Although the CDC largely withdrew from funding research on gun violence more than 20 years ago (under intense congressional pressure), there are active research programs in medicine, public health, law, and the social sciences under way in universities and think tanks.
The Science of Gun Policy
The RAND Corporation's Gun Policy in America initiative is a unique attempt to systematically and transparently assess available scientific evidence on the real effects of firearm laws and policies. Good gun policies require consideration of many factors, including the law and constitutional rights, the interests of various stakeholder groups ...
Gun Control in America: A Global Comparison
Spieller, Lee (2020) "Gun Control in America: A Global Comparison," Themis: Research Journal of Justice Studies and Forensic Science: Vol. 8 , Article 7. This Peer-Reviewed Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Justice Studies at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Themis: Research Journal of Justice ...
Scholarly Articles on Gun Control: History, Legislation & Activism
The National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934 was the country's first major federal gun control legislation. The law required the registration of certain firearms, imposed taxes on the sale and manufacture of firearms, and restricted the sale and ownership of high-risk weapons such as machine guns. The Federal Firearms Act (FFA) of 1938 provided ...
US gun policies: what researchers know about their effectiveness
United States to fund gun-violence research after 20-year freeze. The law, which includes measures to enhance background checks and allows review of mental-health records for young people wanting ...
Gun Violence & Gun Control
Gun Violence & Gun Control. Gun violence is a global issue - it kills more than 500 people each day. Of that, more than 100 die in the United States alone and in 2020, more than 45,000 Americans died by gun violence, the country's worst year on record. This collection provides freely accessible research and perspectives on gun ownership, gun ...
Effectiveness of Firearm Restriction, Background Checks, and Licensing
It is inarguable that more research is needed on both the implementation and outcomes of these gun safety laws; however, the research that we currently have is compelling. Research has shown that well-implemented firearm policy that is based on evidence-based risk factors can be effective in reducing all types of firearm injury. ... Gun laws do ...
Effective Gun Control Policy in the United States
The paper, after reviewing the literature on gun control policy found gun ownership as the significant predictor of firearm homicide rates, and there is a robust correlation between higher levels ...
PDF The Impact of Mass Shootings on Gun Policy v29[1]
Abstract. There have been dozens of high-profile mass shootings in recent decades. This paper presents three main findings about the impact of mass shootings on gun policy. First, mass shootings evoke large policy responses. A single mass shooting leads to a 15% increase in the number of firearm bills introduced within a state in the year after ...
Reducing gun violence: Stanford scholars tackle the issue
Research has shown that states with tighter policies save lives: One study by Stephanie Chao found that states with stricter gun laws have lower rates of gun deaths among children and teenagers ...
Gun violence: Prediction, prevention, and policy
Most gun-related laws focus on the user of the gun (e.g., increased penalties for using a gun in the commission of a crime). Some research suggests that having been threatened with a gun, as well as the perpetrator's having access to a gun and using a gun during the fatal incident, is associated with increased risk of women becoming victims ...
The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives
The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives. By enacting simple laws that make guns safer and harder to get, we can prevent killings like the ones in Uvalde and Buffalo. Editor's Note (5/24/23 ...
Guns and public health in the U.S., 25 years after Columbine
May 2, 2024 - Federal gun laws have been weakened, state laws are a patchwork, and the U.S. still has more gun deaths per capita than any other high-income country. But firearms researcher David Hemenway, professor of health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, sees reasons for hope.. Q: It's been 25 years since the Columbine High School shooting.
How Do State and Local Government Officials View Gun Control?
May 23, 2013 •. J.B. Wogan. Senior-level state and local government officials strongly favor universal background checks as a solution to gun violence, according to a Governing Index survey. But ...
The U.S. Has More Guns, But Russia Has More Murders
A Russian police officer unloads guns seized from the public that are to be melted down in the Rostov-On-Don region on May 28. Russia has strict gun laws and far fewer guns in circulation than the ...
The burden of firearm violence in the United States: stricter laws
Introduction. The United States ranks number 1 in the list of countries with most privately owned guns with 101 guns for every 100 individuals. 1 This has resulted in the loss of 32 lives and the treatment of 140 people every single day for gun related violence. 2 These numbers state that there are more lives lost in seven weeks at the hands of firearm related violence than the total number of ...
Arming Tennessee teachers: Experts, others question new gun law
Still, the idea of arming teachers makes him uncomfortable. When asked if he thinks the 40 hours of basic training required under the law is enough for teachers and staff to carry guns in schools ...
Is it legal to keep guns in cars in SC? Here's what to know.
The city has the third highest rate of gun thefts from cars in the country, Everytown's research shows. The ability for guns to be stolen from cars makes it easier for people not legally allowed ...
Charlotte, NC shooting: 4 law enforcement officers killed as US ...
As law enforcement agents set up a perimeter around the residence, the memo said, Hughes opened fire with what was likely an AR-15-style rifle from a second-story window, striking 8 officers, the ...
The Protesters and the President
Warning: this episode contains strong language. Over the past week, students at dozens of universities held demonstrations, set up encampments and, at times, seized academic buildings.
University of Chicago Computer Science Researchers To Present Ten
The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is a premier international conference where researchers and practitioners gather to discuss the latest research in human-computer interaction. Held annually, CHI brings together experts from academia and industry to present groundbreaking research, share insights, and explore future directions in the field.
City Council Moscow Oks Indoor Firearms Range Husky Sport Shop Plan
MOSCOW The city council approved a permit Monday for an indoor firearms practice range behind Husky Sport Shop. Darrell Tonn, owner of the shop at 1006
NeurIPS 2024 Call for Papers
Papers may be rejected without consideration of their merits if they fail to meet the submission requirements, as described in this document. Paper checklist: In order to improve the rigor and transparency of research submitted to and published at NeurIPS, authors are required to complete a paper checklist. The paper checklist is intended to ...
§ 3-1 TITLE 10 POLICE REGULATIONS § 3-4
Sec. 3-3. Discharge of Weapons Prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person, unless authorized pursuant to Idaho Code Title 18, Chapter 33, to discharge firearms or weapons of any kind or description within the City; this Code Section shall include hand guns, rifles, pellet guns, air rifles, BB guns, sling shots, flippers, bows and arrows ...
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This ANNALS volume is a collection of new scholarly articles that address the current state of America's gun ownership, how it came to be, the distinct frames that scholars use to understand gun violence, and potential solutions to the social problems it creates. We offer up-to-date research that examines what works and what does not. From this, we suggest ways forward for research, policy ...
Introduction. Gun reform was a key policy issue of the 2020 presidential general election. President Biden and Democratic leaders have advocated for the enactment of "common sense" gun reform efforts, such as assault weapon bans, universal background checks, and increased resources to enforce current gun laws (Lucey, 2021).They believe that such reforms will help reduce the ...
Introduction. Despite an increasing frequency of mass shootings in the US and the seemingly disproportionate occurrence of mass shootings in some states and not others, little research has been carried out to understand state level factors that could influence mass shootings. 1 A 2018 report pointed to only three studies that had examined associations between gun laws and mass shooting events ...
Fortunately, the flow of high-quality research has increased in recent years. Although the CDC largely withdrew from funding research on gun violence more than 20 years ago (under intense congressional pressure), there are active research programs in medicine, public health, law, and the social sciences under way in universities and think tanks.
The RAND Corporation's Gun Policy in America initiative is a unique attempt to systematically and transparently assess available scientific evidence on the real effects of firearm laws and policies. Good gun policies require consideration of many factors, including the law and constitutional rights, the interests of various stakeholder groups ...
Spieller, Lee (2020) "Gun Control in America: A Global Comparison," Themis: Research Journal of Justice Studies and Forensic Science: Vol. 8 , Article 7. This Peer-Reviewed Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Justice Studies at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Themis: Research Journal of Justice ...
The National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934 was the country's first major federal gun control legislation. The law required the registration of certain firearms, imposed taxes on the sale and manufacture of firearms, and restricted the sale and ownership of high-risk weapons such as machine guns. The Federal Firearms Act (FFA) of 1938 provided ...
United States to fund gun-violence research after 20-year freeze. The law, which includes measures to enhance background checks and allows review of mental-health records for young people wanting ...
Gun Violence & Gun Control. Gun violence is a global issue - it kills more than 500 people each day. Of that, more than 100 die in the United States alone and in 2020, more than 45,000 Americans died by gun violence, the country's worst year on record. This collection provides freely accessible research and perspectives on gun ownership, gun ...
It is inarguable that more research is needed on both the implementation and outcomes of these gun safety laws; however, the research that we currently have is compelling. Research has shown that well-implemented firearm policy that is based on evidence-based risk factors can be effective in reducing all types of firearm injury. ... Gun laws do ...
The paper, after reviewing the literature on gun control policy found gun ownership as the significant predictor of firearm homicide rates, and there is a robust correlation between higher levels ...
Abstract. There have been dozens of high-profile mass shootings in recent decades. This paper presents three main findings about the impact of mass shootings on gun policy. First, mass shootings evoke large policy responses. A single mass shooting leads to a 15% increase in the number of firearm bills introduced within a state in the year after ...
Research has shown that states with tighter policies save lives: One study by Stephanie Chao found that states with stricter gun laws have lower rates of gun deaths among children and teenagers ...
Most gun-related laws focus on the user of the gun (e.g., increased penalties for using a gun in the commission of a crime). Some research suggests that having been threatened with a gun, as well as the perpetrator's having access to a gun and using a gun during the fatal incident, is associated with increased risk of women becoming victims ...
The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives. By enacting simple laws that make guns safer and harder to get, we can prevent killings like the ones in Uvalde and Buffalo. Editor's Note (5/24/23 ...
May 2, 2024 - Federal gun laws have been weakened, state laws are a patchwork, and the U.S. still has more gun deaths per capita than any other high-income country. But firearms researcher David Hemenway, professor of health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, sees reasons for hope.. Q: It's been 25 years since the Columbine High School shooting.
May 23, 2013 •. J.B. Wogan. Senior-level state and local government officials strongly favor universal background checks as a solution to gun violence, according to a Governing Index survey. But ...
A Russian police officer unloads guns seized from the public that are to be melted down in the Rostov-On-Don region on May 28. Russia has strict gun laws and far fewer guns in circulation than the ...
Introduction. The United States ranks number 1 in the list of countries with most privately owned guns with 101 guns for every 100 individuals. 1 This has resulted in the loss of 32 lives and the treatment of 140 people every single day for gun related violence. 2 These numbers state that there are more lives lost in seven weeks at the hands of firearm related violence than the total number of ...
Still, the idea of arming teachers makes him uncomfortable. When asked if he thinks the 40 hours of basic training required under the law is enough for teachers and staff to carry guns in schools ...
The city has the third highest rate of gun thefts from cars in the country, Everytown's research shows. The ability for guns to be stolen from cars makes it easier for people not legally allowed ...
As law enforcement agents set up a perimeter around the residence, the memo said, Hughes opened fire with what was likely an AR-15-style rifle from a second-story window, striking 8 officers, the ...
Warning: this episode contains strong language. Over the past week, students at dozens of universities held demonstrations, set up encampments and, at times, seized academic buildings.
The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is a premier international conference where researchers and practitioners gather to discuss the latest research in human-computer interaction. Held annually, CHI brings together experts from academia and industry to present groundbreaking research, share insights, and explore future directions in the field.
MOSCOW The city council approved a permit Monday for an indoor firearms practice range behind Husky Sport Shop. Darrell Tonn, owner of the shop at 1006
Papers may be rejected without consideration of their merits if they fail to meet the submission requirements, as described in this document. Paper checklist: In order to improve the rigor and transparency of research submitted to and published at NeurIPS, authors are required to complete a paper checklist. The paper checklist is intended to ...
Sec. 3-3. Discharge of Weapons Prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person, unless authorized pursuant to Idaho Code Title 18, Chapter 33, to discharge firearms or weapons of any kind or description within the City; this Code Section shall include hand guns, rifles, pellet guns, air rifles, BB guns, sling shots, flippers, bows and arrows ...