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Gun attitudes on campus: United and divided by safety needs.
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It is suggested that protection concerns, rather than gun-ownership per se, account for diverging perceptions and attitudes about guns and gun control.Abstract:
All people share a need for safety. Yet people's pursuit of safety can conflict when it comes to guns, with some people perceiving guns as a means to safety and others perceiving guns as a threat to safety. We examined this conflict on a U.S. college campus that prohibits guns. We distinguished between people (N = 11,390) who (1) own a gun for protection, (2) own a gun exclusively for reasons other than protection (e.g., collecting, sports), and (3) do not own a gun. Protection owners felt less safe on campus and supported allowing guns on campus. They also reported that they and others would feel safer and that gun violence would decrease if they carried a gun on campus. Non-owners and non-protection owners felt the reverse. The findings suggest that protection concerns, rather than gun-ownership per se, account for diverging perceptions and attitudes about guns and gun control.read more
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Protective Gun Ownership as a Coping Mechanism.
TL;DR: The coping model of protective gun ownership is proposed and it is argued that those who own their weapon for protection are using their gun symbolically as an aid to manage psychological threats that come from their belief that the world is a dangerous place and that society will not keep them safe.
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Attitudes toward Concealed Carry of Firearms on Campus: A Systematic Review of the Literature
TL;DR: Gun control is a highly debated and divisive social issue. In recent years, this issue has been thrust into the academic arena with the advent of campus carry legislation and policies as discussed by the authors.
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The anticipated consequences of legalizing guns on college campuses.
James A. Shepperd,Joy E. Losee,Gabrielle Pogge,Nikolette P. Lipsey,Liz Redford,Marie Crandall +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether gun ownership and the reason for owning a gun is linked to expectations about what will happen if legislation allows guns on one's college campus and found that protection owners acknowledge these harms yet support legislation allowing guns on campus.
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Associations among exaggerated threat perceptions, suicidal thoughts, and suicidal behaviors in U.S. firearm owners.
TL;DR: Results suggest that threat expectancies in particular, and anticipatory anxiety more generally, may be biobehavioral processes associated with the correlation of firearm ownership and increased suicide risk.
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Campus Carry Attitudes Revisited: Variations within the University Campus Community.
Matthew R. Hassett,Bitna Kim +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined attitudes toward campus carry, a policy that would permit individuals to carry concealed firearms on a university's grounds if they possess a permit, and found that the majority of students supported campus carry.
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