About six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) favor stricter gun laws. Another 26% say that U.S. gun laws are about right, and 15% favor less strict gun laws. The percentage who say these laws should be stricter has fluctuated a bit in recent years. In 2021, 53% favored stricter gun laws, and in 2019, 60% said laws should be stricter.
Saving lives by regulating guns: Evidence for policy
The CDC initiated a gun-violence research program in the 1980s, but in 1996, influenced by the pro-gun National Rifle Association, Congress adopted the Dickey Amendment, which banned the use of government research funding to advocate for gun control, and cut the CDC budget by $2.6 million, which happened to be the budget of the gun-violence ...
Gun Control, Explained
By The New York Times. Published Jan. 26, 2023 Updated Jan. 26, 2023. As the number of mass shootings in America continues to rise, gun control — a term used to describe a wide range of ...
The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives
The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives. By enacting simple laws that make guns safer and harder to get, we can prevent killings like the ones in Uvalde and Buffalo. Editor's Note (5/24/23 ...
Gun Violence and Gun Policy in the United States: Understanding
In this volume, we set out to highlight the current research and thinking about gun violence prevention. But we also seek to elevate the conversation about gun violence in America: the public discourse is dominated by polarized and politicized factions—the "gun rights" group lines up on one side and the "gun control" group on the other.
Reducing gun violence: Stanford scholars tackle the issue
Uncovering the causes of gun violence has been a challenge, in part because research is limited by federal legislation that constrains research funding on the issue. Scholar Nigam Shah at the ...
US gun policies: what researchers know about their effectiveness
Gun-violence research is also stymied by gaps in basic data. For example, information on firearm ownership hasn't been collected by the US government since the mid-2000s, a result of the Tiahrt ...
What Researchers Know about Gun Policies' Effectiveness
Gun-violence research is also stymied by gaps in basic data. For example, information on firearm ownership hasn't been collected by the US government since the mid-2000s, a result of the Tiahrt ...
National Survey of Gun Policy
The Johns Hopkins National Survey of Gun Policy has tracked Americans' support of gun policies every two years since 2013. The 2023 survey included 3,096 respondents including 1,002 gun owners and 2,094 non-gun owners. The breakdown by political party affiliation of survey respondents was 730 Republicans, 1,199 Democrats, and 1,163 Independents.
The psychology of guns: risk, fear, and motivated reasoning
Despite the 1996 Dickey Amendment's restriction of federal funding for research on gun violence by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Rostron, 2018), more than 30 years of public ...
Amid a Series of Mass Shootings in the U.S., Gun ...
A narrow majority of U.S. adults (53%) say that gun laws should be stricter than they are today. About a third (32%) say that gun laws are currently about right, and 14% say they should be less strict than they are today. The share who say gun laws should be stricter has decreased since September 2019, when six-in-ten Americans said this.
Firearm Ownership, Defensive Gun Usage, and Support for Gun Control
The dominate research suggests that gun control intended to keep guns away from dangerous and "at risk" people may be effective at reducing serious violence (Braga & Cook, 2018; Kleck et al., 2016; RAND, 2020), while gun control strategies aimed at reducing community firearm ownership may have little to no effect on overall violent crime ...
Why gun violence research was quashed and how it's gaining new ...
Looking at mortality rates over a decade, gun violence killed about as many people as sepsis, the data showed. If funded at the same rate, gun violence would have been expected to receive $1.4 ...
What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.
About eight-in-ten U.S. murders in 2021 - 20,958 out of 26,031, or 81% - involved a firearm. That marked the highest percentage since at least 1968, the earliest year for which the CDC has online records. More than half of all suicides in 2021 - 26,328 out of 48,183, or 55% - also involved a gun, the highest percentage since 2001.
Gun violence: Prediction, prevention, and policy
The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibited persons from purchasing a firearm if they had been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric inpatient unit. ... (Wellford et al., 2004). The dearth of such research on gun policies is due, in part, to the lack of government funding on this topic because of the political influences of the gun lobby (e.g ...
A Bold New Goal: Reduce Gun Violence 30% By 2030
Research shows that reducing blighted lots, alcohol outlets, and vacant buildings can also reduce gun violence in a community. Better street lighting and community gardens can also make a big difference. The Way Forward. The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions is charting a transformative path to reduce gun violence by 30% by 2030.
Gun Safety Policies Save Lives
The rankings clearly show that gun laws save lives. But no state is an island (except Hawaii), and any state may be vulnerable if its neighbors fail to protect public safety. That's how northeastern states with strong laws ended up victims of the infamous "iron pipeline," the route traffickers use to bring guns up from southeastern states ...
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Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Underlying Cause of Death, 2018-2022; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) nonfatal firearm injury data, 2020; and SurveyUSA Market Research Study #26602, 2022. Everytown Research & Policy conducts independent research, supports evidence-based policies, and communicates this knowledge to ...
Gun Policy
Growing shares of Americans view both gun violence and violent crime as very big national problems. 49% of U.S. adults say gun ownership increases safety by allowing law-abiding citizens to protect themselves; an identical share says it reduces safety by giving too many people access to firearms and increasing misuse. short readsApr 26, 2023.
Scholarly Articles on Gun Control: History, Legislation & Activism
The National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934 was the country's first major federal gun control legislation. The law required the registration of certain firearms, imposed taxes on the sale and manufacture of firearms, and restricted the sale and ownership of high-risk weapons such as machine guns. The Federal Firearms Act (FFA) of 1938 provided ...
Does Gun Control Really Work?
Gun violence is a public health issue, but politics has interfered with research to determine how to reduce suicides or homicides caused by guns. Research is necessary for legislators to create effective gun control policy. All articles are reviewed and approved by Dr. Diana Zuckerman and other senior staff. Richards, S. (2015, Fall).
Voters Say They Want Gun Control. Their Votes Say Something Different
The results of other poll questions about gun control might help explain why the arguments against background checks have proved so resonant. Americans split roughly equally on whether gun laws ...
Biden Speaks on Gun Safety After His Son Is Found Guilty on Firearms
June 11, 2024, at 9:04 a.m. Biden Speaks on Gun Safety After His Son Is Found Guilty on Firearms Charges. More. Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at Everytown for Gun Safety ...
Views on gun policy in the U.S.
In a nationally representative Pew Research Center survey conducted April 5 to 11, 2017, among 1,501 adults over 18, 51% said it was more important to control gun ownership and 47% said protecting the right to own guns is more important (see long term trends on the public's views about guns).
Comedy Shows Use Hunter Verdict To Push Gun Control, Attack GOP, Trump
All five of the late night comedy talk show hosts managed to acknowledge the existence of Hunter Biden's guilty verdict on their Tuesday shows, but mentioning something is not the same thing as joking about it. Instead, the quintet used the verdict to go after Donald Trump, Republicans, and lament the lack of gun control in America.
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About six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) favor stricter gun laws. Another 26% say that U.S. gun laws are about right, and 15% favor less strict gun laws. The percentage who say these laws should be stricter has fluctuated a bit in recent years. In 2021, 53% favored stricter gun laws, and in 2019, 60% said laws should be stricter.
The CDC initiated a gun-violence research program in the 1980s, but in 1996, influenced by the pro-gun National Rifle Association, Congress adopted the Dickey Amendment, which banned the use of government research funding to advocate for gun control, and cut the CDC budget by $2.6 million, which happened to be the budget of the gun-violence ...
By The New York Times. Published Jan. 26, 2023 Updated Jan. 26, 2023. As the number of mass shootings in America continues to rise, gun control — a term used to describe a wide range of ...
The Science Is Clear: Gun Control Saves Lives. By enacting simple laws that make guns safer and harder to get, we can prevent killings like the ones in Uvalde and Buffalo. Editor's Note (5/24/23 ...
In this volume, we set out to highlight the current research and thinking about gun violence prevention. But we also seek to elevate the conversation about gun violence in America: the public discourse is dominated by polarized and politicized factions—the "gun rights" group lines up on one side and the "gun control" group on the other.
Uncovering the causes of gun violence has been a challenge, in part because research is limited by federal legislation that constrains research funding on the issue. Scholar Nigam Shah at the ...
Gun-violence research is also stymied by gaps in basic data. For example, information on firearm ownership hasn't been collected by the US government since the mid-2000s, a result of the Tiahrt ...
Gun-violence research is also stymied by gaps in basic data. For example, information on firearm ownership hasn't been collected by the US government since the mid-2000s, a result of the Tiahrt ...
The Johns Hopkins National Survey of Gun Policy has tracked Americans' support of gun policies every two years since 2013. The 2023 survey included 3,096 respondents including 1,002 gun owners and 2,094 non-gun owners. The breakdown by political party affiliation of survey respondents was 730 Republicans, 1,199 Democrats, and 1,163 Independents.
Despite the 1996 Dickey Amendment's restriction of federal funding for research on gun violence by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Rostron, 2018), more than 30 years of public ...
A narrow majority of U.S. adults (53%) say that gun laws should be stricter than they are today. About a third (32%) say that gun laws are currently about right, and 14% say they should be less strict than they are today. The share who say gun laws should be stricter has decreased since September 2019, when six-in-ten Americans said this.
The dominate research suggests that gun control intended to keep guns away from dangerous and "at risk" people may be effective at reducing serious violence (Braga & Cook, 2018; Kleck et al., 2016; RAND, 2020), while gun control strategies aimed at reducing community firearm ownership may have little to no effect on overall violent crime ...
Looking at mortality rates over a decade, gun violence killed about as many people as sepsis, the data showed. If funded at the same rate, gun violence would have been expected to receive $1.4 ...
About eight-in-ten U.S. murders in 2021 - 20,958 out of 26,031, or 81% - involved a firearm. That marked the highest percentage since at least 1968, the earliest year for which the CDC has online records. More than half of all suicides in 2021 - 26,328 out of 48,183, or 55% - also involved a gun, the highest percentage since 2001.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibited persons from purchasing a firearm if they had been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric inpatient unit. ... (Wellford et al., 2004). The dearth of such research on gun policies is due, in part, to the lack of government funding on this topic because of the political influences of the gun lobby (e.g ...
Research shows that reducing blighted lots, alcohol outlets, and vacant buildings can also reduce gun violence in a community. Better street lighting and community gardens can also make a big difference. The Way Forward. The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions is charting a transformative path to reduce gun violence by 30% by 2030.
The rankings clearly show that gun laws save lives. But no state is an island (except Hawaii), and any state may be vulnerable if its neighbors fail to protect public safety. That's how northeastern states with strong laws ended up victims of the infamous "iron pipeline," the route traffickers use to bring guns up from southeastern states ...
Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Underlying Cause of Death, 2018-2022; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) nonfatal firearm injury data, 2020; and SurveyUSA Market Research Study #26602, 2022. Everytown Research & Policy conducts independent research, supports evidence-based policies, and communicates this knowledge to ...
Growing shares of Americans view both gun violence and violent crime as very big national problems. 49% of U.S. adults say gun ownership increases safety by allowing law-abiding citizens to protect themselves; an identical share says it reduces safety by giving too many people access to firearms and increasing misuse. short readsApr 26, 2023.
The National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934 was the country's first major federal gun control legislation. The law required the registration of certain firearms, imposed taxes on the sale and manufacture of firearms, and restricted the sale and ownership of high-risk weapons such as machine guns. The Federal Firearms Act (FFA) of 1938 provided ...
Gun violence is a public health issue, but politics has interfered with research to determine how to reduce suicides or homicides caused by guns. Research is necessary for legislators to create effective gun control policy. All articles are reviewed and approved by Dr. Diana Zuckerman and other senior staff. Richards, S. (2015, Fall).
The results of other poll questions about gun control might help explain why the arguments against background checks have proved so resonant. Americans split roughly equally on whether gun laws ...
June 11, 2024, at 9:04 a.m. Biden Speaks on Gun Safety After His Son Is Found Guilty on Firearms Charges. More. Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at Everytown for Gun Safety ...
In a nationally representative Pew Research Center survey conducted April 5 to 11, 2017, among 1,501 adults over 18, 51% said it was more important to control gun ownership and 47% said protecting the right to own guns is more important (see long term trends on the public's views about guns).
All five of the late night comedy talk show hosts managed to acknowledge the existence of Hunter Biden's guilty verdict on their Tuesday shows, but mentioning something is not the same thing as joking about it. Instead, the quintet used the verdict to go after Donald Trump, Republicans, and lament the lack of gun control in America.