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About: Gun control is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1211 publications have been published within this topic receiving 16516 citations. The topic is also known as: firearms control & gun law.


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TL;DR: Wallack and Frattaroli as mentioned in this paper conducted interviews with key participants in the May 5, 2000 Million Mom March '9 (MMM), an event they claim attracted more grassroots participation and media attention than any previous gun control event in U.S. history.
Abstract: aG X*~'~WO articles in this journal (i-z) analyze grassroots _ efforts to promote policies aimed at reducing firearm violence in the United States. Wallack and collaborators conducted more than forty interviews with key participants in the May i 5, 2000 Million Mom March '9 (MMM), an event they claim attracted more grassroots participation and media attention than any previous gun control event in U.S. history. The core message of the MMM was the need to protect children from harm. As one participant explained: "We had one common goal. It was for the children." The highly publicized cluster of school shootings in the late I990S played an important role in helping garner support. A disappointment of MMM was the low level of participation by people of color. Frattaroli conducted interviews with eighteen gun violence prevention advocates who operate out of six states and the District of Columbia. She concludes that grassroots advocacy in the gun violence prevention movement is a recent development, evolving in five years "from virtually non-existent to commonplace and influential in some states and localities." While much grassroots activity is directed toward the firearm, most grassroots discussions about gun violence focus on urban youth (minority) violence. Frattaroli also notes a problem with the lack of ethnic diversity among the advocates-the gun violence prevention movement is largely a white, middle class movement.

4 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a survey of rural Appalachian college students explored gun control attitudes in order to consider what makes compromise and consensus on the issue of gun control so difficult, and their implications for rural social workers.
Abstract: Senseless and tragic shootings across communities such as Newtown, Connecticut have riveted public attention on gun control. Bombarded by pro- and anti-gun-control forces, policy makers are often reactionary. Social workers must deal with these policies and the clients who fear them. Social scientists have suggested that cultural world views have greater influence on this issue than any other predictors. A survey of rural Appalachian college students (N=294) explored gun control attitudes in order to consider what makes compromise and consensus on the issue of gun control so difficult. It considers these influences and their implications for rural social workers.

4 citations

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Mark Gius1
TL;DR: In this paper, a large longitudinal data set is used, and data for all 50 states for the period 1980 to 2011 are examined. And the results suggest that permit-to-purchase laws have no statistically significant effect on state-level firearm murder rates.
Abstract: The purpose of the present study is to determine if permit-to-purchase laws are significantly related to firearm murder rates. There has been very little research done on the effect of this particular gun control measure on crime. The present study differs from prior research in two ways. First, a large longitudinal data set is used, and data for all 50 states for the period 1980 to 2011 are examined. Second, a fixed effects model, controlling for both state and year effects is used. Results suggest that permit-to-purchase laws have no statistically-significant effect on state-level firearm murder rates. These results are contrary to the results found in prior studies on this topic.

4 citations

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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of gun control laws and gun ownership rates on state-level suicide rates were investigated using the most recent data on suicide rates, gun control measures, and firearm ownership rates.
Abstract: The purpose of the present study is to determine the effects of gun control laws and gun ownership rates on state-level suicide rates. Using the most recent data on suicide rates, gun control measures, and gun ownership rates, the results of the present study suggest that states that require handgun permits have lower gun-related suicide rates, and states that have higher gun ownership rates have higher gun-related suicide rates. Regarding non-gun suicides, results suggest that stricter gun control laws may result in higher non-firearm suicides, and higher rates of gun ownership result in lower non-gun suicide rates. These results suggest that stricter gun control laws may actually induce potential suicide victims to alter the method by which they commit suicide. Hence, the overall effects of firearm availability on suicides may be muted due to the fact that while reduced firearm availability reduces firearm suicides, it also increases non-firearm suicides.

4 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the author examines the various "factoids" that have been produced by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and concludes that "gun control is a public health issue and medical research demonstrates the need for stringent gun controls."
Abstract: Since the late 1980s, proponents of severe gun laws have made the argument that gun control is a "public health" issue, and that medical research demonstrates the need for stringent gun controls. The chief proponent of the view that gun control is a public health necessity has been the federal Centers for Disease Control. In this article, the author examines the various "factoids" that have been produced by CDC research. (This article was originally presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in Chicago, Illinois, in March 1994.)

4 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202356
202294
202139
202043
201950
201860