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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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01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: Under Fire was widely hailed as the first objective examination of the NRA and its efforts to defeat gun control legislation as discussed by the authors, and Osha Gray Davidson showed how the NRA's extremism has cost the organization both political power and popular support.
Abstract: Originally published in 1993, Under Fire was widely hailed as the first objective examination of the NRA and its efforts to defeat gun control legislation. Now in this expanded edition, Osha Gray Davidson shows how the NRA's extremism has cost the organization both political power and popular support. He offers a well-reasoned and workable approach to gun control, one that will find many supporters even among the NRA membership.

37 citations

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TL;DR: The article states that “the passage of C-51 seems to have a more beneficial impact on female victims than on male victims” and “ Males appear to be less influenced by gun restrictions… Displacement, especially in males in suicide - and homicide - may impede efforts to prevent violence”.
Abstract: An article recently published in the Archives of Suicide Research (Leenaars & Lester, 1996, 2, 223-234) concerning the impact of the 1977 Canadian gun control legislation on the national gender-specific rates of suicide and homicide concluded that “… the bill had a preventative effect only on female suicide and homicide without displacement. There may have been compensatory use in other methods for males in both types of lethal violence” (Abstract). The article states that “the passage of C-51 seems to have a more beneficial impact on female victims than on male victims… Males appear to be less influenced by gun restrictions… Displacement, especially in males in suicide - and homicide - may impede efforts to prevent violence” (1996: 229-232).1 Based on a re-analysis of the data which they present, we must disagree with these statements.

36 citations

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TL;DR: This study designed a case study and collected data from in-depth, key informant interviews, court observations, and relevant documents to recommend how to increase the likelihood that policies designed to separate batterers and guns are implemented in a way that will result in greater protections for victims of domestic violence.
Abstract: The Maryland Gun Violence Act, enacted into law in 1996, explicitly authorized courts to order batterers to surrender their firearms through civil protective orders It also vested law enforcement with the explicit authority to remove guns when responding to a domestic violence complaint In order to assess how these laws were implemented, we designed a case study and collected data from in-depth, key informant interviews, court observations, and relevant documents We present findings from this study and recommend how to increase the likelihood that policies designed to separate batterers and guns are implemented in a way that will result in greater protections for victims of domestic violence

36 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the tenuous connections between severe mental illness, gun control measures, and mass shootings, and find that offenders are generally not psychotic, infrequently use assault weapons, and do not often target gun-free zones, and so strategies based on these elements are not apt to reduce the risk of mass shootings to any significant degree.
Abstract: Despite their exceptional rarity, high-profile mass murders, particularly those involving firearms, are often linked to deficiencies in our mental health system and gun laws. In this article, we consider the tenuous connections between severe mental illness, gun control measures, and mass shootings. Several suggested preventative strategies are evaluated for potential effectiveness, including expanded firearm restrictions and background checks for the mentally ill, the now-expired Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and the establishment of gun-free zones. Examining data on mass shootings from various governmental and news sources, we find that offenders are generally not psychotic, infrequently use assault weapons, and do not often target gun-free zones, and so strategies based on these elements are not apt to reduce the risk of mass shootings to any significant degree.

36 citations

Book
01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize the results and policy implications of recent state-of-the-art research on guns and violence in accessible, non-technical language, including media bias in coverage of gun issues, distorting effects that a covert prohibitionist agenda has on the debate over more moderate measures for reducing gun violence, the frequency and effectiveness of the defensive use of guns, and a close analysis of the Second Amendment.
Abstract: The gun control debate is often obscured by strong emotions and unproven assumptions According to conventional wisdom accidents with handguns account for a significant number of deaths among children, gun owners endanger themselves more than they ward off potential criminal assailants, and there is a widespread legal consensus that the Second Amendment does not support the individual right to bear arms All of these assumptions, and many others, say researchers Gary Kleck and Don Kates, are contradicted by the weight of criminological and legal evidence Hoping to disentangle myth from reality, the authors summarize the results and policy implications of recent state-of-the-art research on guns and violence in accessible, nontechnical language Among the topics addressed are media bias in coverage of gun issues, the distorting effects that a covert prohibitionist agenda has on the debate over more moderate measures for reducing gun violence, the frequency and effectiveness of the defensive use of guns, and a close analysis of the Second Amendment This well-argued and scrupulously researched volume is essential for any full understanding of the complex gun issue

36 citations


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