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Gun control
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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01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: In this article, the benefits of gun ownership and the costs of firearm ownership are discussed, as well as the philosophical roots of the right to own a firearm and opposition to that right.
Abstract: 1 The Benefits of Gun Ownership 2 The Costs of Firearms 3 Philosophical Roots of the Right to Arms and of Opposition to That Right 4 The Right to Arms in the Second Amendment and State Constitutions: Cases and Commentary 5 Guns and Identity: Race, Gender, Class, and Culture 6 Guns and Civil Liability
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01 Jan 2022
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors discuss four common methodological problems that they observed in the literature evaluating gun policies and offer suggestions for how future research on gun policies could be improved, as well as how to improve existing research.
Abstract: In this report, part of the RAND Gun Policy in America initiative, the authors discuss four common methodological problems that they observed in the literature evaluating gun policies and offer suggestions for how future research on gun policies could be improved.
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TL;DR: In the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, the authors argued that "gun control laws endanger trans people of color and queer women of color, as well as those labeled mentally ill, by failing to reduce interpersonal violence while increasing the violence of the criminal legal system".
Abstract: Those concerned with racial, gender, sexual, economic, or disability justice should be concerned about the direction and focus of national conversations in the wake of Newtown. Controversies over gun control and mental health treatment have a profound impact on those marginalized based on race, gender, sexuality, class, and disability. Gun control laws endanger trans people of color and queer women of color, as well as those labeled mentally ill, by failing to reduce interpersonal violence while increasing the violence of the criminal legal system. Instead of increasing incarceration of people in marginalized communities who choose to carry guns, we should consider true disarmament. This disarmament would involve demilitarizing police, decreasing incarceration, keeping cops out of schools, no longer investing in the armed forces, and instead investing in communities. Expanded power to commit people based on mental illness, whether on an outpatient or inpatient basis, also harms marginalized communities, especially queer women of color and trans people of color who are already highly vulnerable to pathologization, disablement, institutionalization, and abuse. Instead, we should consider investing more deeply in holistic, community-directed services for mentally ill people that support self-determination and social change, including fighting state and interpersonal violence against people with mental illness.
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22 Jan 2015
TL;DR: An Applied Research Project (Political Science 5397) as discussed by the authors submitted to the Department of Political Science, Texas State University, in Partial Fulfillment for the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Public Administration, Fall, 2014.
Abstract: An Applied Research Project (Political Science 5397) Submitted
to the Department of Political Science, Texas State University, in Partial Fulfillment for the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Public Administration, Fall, 2014
Faculty Approval: Dr. Hassan Tajalli
Dr. Stephanie Newbold
Dr. William DeSoto
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