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To examine the relationship between state firearm laws, state gun ownership, active school shootings and school shootings using both of these two datasets, which cover the same two-decade time period
- 10.1080/15388220.2021.2018332
- 2022
- Abstract
- Limitations and Directions for Future Research
- Conclusion
- Declarations
Recent incidents of gun violence have raised questions about public access to “military-style” firearms and the need for more-restrictive forms of gun control. Proponents of more-restrictive forms of gun regulation argue that such measures will help combat the dispropor-tionately high rates of gun crime in the United States. Opponents believe that ...
The most concerning limitation of this study is that it utilized a cross-sectional research design. As such, the temporal relationship between variables remains unknown. Related, data were collected from a sample of Pennsylvania residents and findings are not generalizable beyond those parameters. Additionally, our measures of gun control overlooke...
Despite these limitations, this work contributes to the extant literature in several ways. Notably, findings from this study suggest that most gun owners in Pennsyl-vania have received some form of safety training and take appropriate safety pre-cautions with their firearms. Moreover, findings reveal that many gun owners use guns for self-defense p...
Conflict of interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
- Nathan E. Kruis, Richard L. Wentling, Tyler S. Frye, Nicholas J. Rowland
- 2021
Jan 8, 2022 · We conducted a time-series analysis to measure the association of permissiveness of state firearm laws and state gun ownership with K-12 school shootings and active shootings. More permissive firearm laws and higher rates of gun ownership were associated with higher rates of both school shootings and active school shootings after controlling ...
Jun 30, 2023 · Examining two gun control laws, the current analysis explores if the laws are predictive of decreases in lethal violence, homicide, and suicide.
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Jan 16, 2022 · The Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 was passed as part of the Crime Control Act of 1990 (see § 1702). The Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 was passed as part of the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994 (see § 14601).
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