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- 1From:Georgia Journal of Science (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedGender differences in public opinion and policy attitudes have been a hallmark of American politics for many years. Gender differences are evident in how women and men respond to contemporary issues. For example, women...
- 2From:Journal of Psychology and Christianity (Vol. 41, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPrevious research suggests that more religious people tend to own more guns and are less supportive of some types of gun control. The current work explored these relationships and investigated the relationship between...
- 3From:Canadian Public Administration (Vol. 65, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPolicy professionals play an important role in political and administrative systems. However, the exact configuration and distribution of such personnel within agencies remains largely unknown. Early works noted the...
- 4From:MIT Sloan Management ReviewPeer-ReviewedBy Blair Levin and Larry Downes What if your company’s health insurance plan (or your hiring and training practices, or your policy on guns in the workplace) violates a new state law? And what if your efforts to comply...
- 5From:The Nation's Health (Vol. 52, Issue 6)New U.S. gun safety measures signed into law in June offer a hopeful step toward preventing the growing epidemic of U.S. gun violence. But when it comes to strong policies that protect people from gun violence, states...
- 6From:Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhatever the wisdom or folly of the belief Americans who live in violence-affected neighborhoods often believe they need a gun for self-defense. Yet many are, due to age or criminal record, unable to legally possess a...
- 7From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedPast research finds that a majority of gun and non-gun owners support key gun safety policies, yet gun owners tend to underestimate other gun owners' support for these policies. We predicted that these misperceptions of...
- 8From:International journal of communication (Online) (Vol. 16) Peer-ReviewedUsing spiral of silence and social loafing theories, this study proposed a parallel mechanism to explain why people defend their stances on controversial sociopolitical issues through political consumption behaviors...
- 9From:BMC Public Health (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Extreme risk protection order (ERPO) laws are a tool for firearm violence prevention (in effect in 19 states), often enacted in the wake of a public mass shooting when media coverage of gun violence tends to...
- 10From:BC Studies (Issue 213) Peer-ReviewedTHE "MASS SHOOTING" IS AN unsettling feature of the modern age. While such events involve only a small percentage of victims of firearm violence, they attract an inordinate amount of public attention and fuel debates...
- 11From:The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHalbrook has offered another outstanding and enjoyable history lesson related to gun control and the right to bear arms. Following his books, Gun Control in the Third Reich (2013) and Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France...
- 12From:Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law (Vol. 23, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAs the Supreme Court sits ready to curtail both abortion rights and gun control laws in its current term, this Note seeks to re theorize the nexus between the constitutional claims to abortion and individual gun...
- 13From:North Carolina Law Review (Vol. 100, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedGun control is a widely debated issue in the United States that often centers on whether restricting access to firearms will increase safety. What is often left undiscussed is the stigma and stereotypes that long-lasting...
- 14From:William and Mary Law Review (Vol. 63, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION In 2007, a man used a firearm to claim thirty-three lives on the campus of Virginia Tech, a public university. (1) The next year, the Supreme Court of the United States recognized, for...
- 15From:Kennedy School Review (Vol. 22) Peer-ReviewedThe United States has a gun violence problem. While mass shootings dominate national headlines, nearly two-thirds of all gun deaths in the United States are a result of suicide. (1) In 2020, 24,000 Americans died by...
- 16From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedBackground Uptake of gun violence restraining orders (GVROs), which temporarily prohibit the possession and purchase of firearms and ammunition from individuals at particularly high risk of harming themselves or others...
- 17From:Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (Vol. 56, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedPurpose Understanding long-term patterns of suicide methods can inform public health policy and prevention strategies. In Brazil, firearm-related policies may be one salient target for suicide prevention. This study...
- 18From:Washington Law Review (Vol. 96, Issue 3)Through 18 U.S.C. [section] 924(c), the Gun Control Act (GCA) outlaws the possession of a firearm "in furtherance of' a drug trafficking crime. The statute's language is broad, and federal courts have interpreted it...
- 19From:Florida Bar News (Vol. 48, Issue 9)Thank you for printing the August letters of Mark Warda, Leo B. Hill, and Edward P. Dutkiewicz. Their thoughtful explaining of the terms "rights" and "privileges" to Elizabeth J. Barber in response to her July letter is...
- 20From:Florida Bar News (Vol. 48, Issue 8)I write to respond to the "Second Amendment" letter of July written by Elizabeth J. Barber. It is an obvious emotional appeal to stop violence. As Benjamin Franklin said, "emotion governs, and she never governs...