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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"gun control"”.
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Gun Control Policy Preference in Context: A Contextually Sensitive Model of Gun Control Policy Preferences
… impact of core values and contextual effects on gun control policy preferences. The research seeks to produce a contextually sensitive model of gun control policy preferences that accounts for the nature of the elite message war regarding the issue of gun control and for both long and short-term …
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The History of Gun Control in the United States
Gun control is one of today’s most controversial topics, bringing about two different, yet passionate arguments. Those who are “pro-gun” argue that firearms are a basic fundamental right given to American citizens by the Second Amendment of the Constitution. Advocates for gun control argue that …
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Policing and firearms: exploring data collection practices and attitudes toward gun control
… enforcement personnel in their opinions towards gun control, as well as investigate the types of information that are recorded in police reports. Using a test population of police officers (n = 90) and students (n = 131), a self administered, anonymous survey was used to test the hypotheses that …
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Police Officers Talking About Gun Control: A Case Study of a Rural Sheriff's Department
… how members of a rural police department view gun control, and the degree to which they think that gun control laws protect police officers and the public. Drawing on conclusions from interviews with twenty police officers within one local sheriff's department, three themes emerged: 1) the …
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Public Support For Stricter Gun Control Laws In America Following The Tragedy At Sandy Hook Elementary
… increase in public outrage and debates regarding gun control laws, due in large part to several mass shootings across the nation. The purpose of this study is to explore how mass shootings influence attitudes toward gun control. More specifically, this study will examine the respondents' …
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A safer and more civilized country : gun control, public health, and the state monopoly on force
… and historical aspects of the idea that gun ownership is a "public health problem". The strategy is to reinterpret modern public health in terms of its relationship to the modern State. Public health is located in a milieu of beliefs and values associated with discourses on "civilization" …
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Control of Violence, Control of Fear: The Progression of Gun Control in San Francisco, 1847-1923
This paper focuses on gun control in San Francisco between 1847 and 1923, from the control of the rowdy men of the gold rush, to the management of the Chinese, to the control of the sale and distribution of firearms. For the purpose of this study, the main sources used to understand public …
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Open Fire: A Portrait of Gun Control in U.S. and International Newspaper Articles after the 2011 Arizona Mass Shooting
… 2011, was conducted to explore media framing of gun control after the Tucson, Arizona mass shooting involving U. S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords.</p><p>Results showed an equal amount of articles with a negative or neutral tone, with the tone shifting to being more frequently neutral after …
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Guns and gun control in South Africa : a case study of fatal gun use in metropolitan Cape Town, 1984-1991, with a critical examination of broader issues
… which firearms have been afforded prominence. A 'gun problem' has been constructed based on the traditional premise that illegal private possession is the issue and most interventions have targeted the reduction of unlicensed guns. However, despite more than 35 years of research worldwide, this …
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Armed to learn: aiming at California K-12 school gun policy
… There is a wide gap in viewpoints between gun control advocates who want tighter gun control and constitutionalists who believe as strongly in the Second Amendment right to bear arms. Whether or not to implement a weapons policy is an issue every school superintendent or school authority …
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Gun Ownership Trends In The United States, 1973-2000
In the last half century, gun ownership has been one of the most hotly debated topics in the United States. The right to bear arms was written into the U. S. Constitution and into the hearts and minds of its citizens. During the last half century, however, numerous gun control laws have been …
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Firearm Injury Prevention: Understanding Firearm Policy Diffusion, 1993-2010
… minimum age to purchase/possess a handgun, stand your ground, large capacity ammunition limits, Saturday night specials and assault weapons bans. A goal of the study was to create a 50 states longitudinal dataset in order to investigate the relationship between internal state political …
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Online Communities and Offline Criminal Justice: The Digital Fallout of Major Criminal Incidents
… relating to xenophobic and othering language, gun rights and gun control, misinformation, and risk amplification.</p>
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Unintended Politics: The Prevalence of Partisan Opinion Expression in Incidental Political Discussions
… three thousand comments on mass shootings and gun control across both political and non-political communities on Reddit showed that incidental political discussions are more likely to contain partisan opinion expression on the same issue than purposive political discussions. In addition, the …
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Forensic Investigation of Stamped Markings Using a Large-Chamber Scanning Electron Microscope and Computer Analysis for Depth Determination
… within the United States are required by the Gun Control Act to be physically marked with a serial number; which is at least 0.003” in depth and 1/16” in height. The purpose of a serial number is to make each firearm uniquely identifiable and traceable. Intentional removal of a serial number …
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Mass School Shootings: Predicting the Usage of Firearms in Acts of School Violence
… agencies such as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A psychological profile, however, has yet to be established. This study uses demographic and behavioral characteristics of perpetrators and school characteristics to predict the …
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Eleven Bullets: A Counter Assault on Subjectivity and the Creation of Meaning
… to communicate.</p> <p>The works utilizes gun control propaganda for the purpose of content only. It is not the goal of this thesis to advocate for any particular stance or policy but rather to demonstrate that a singular visual lexicon can be effective in creating meaning across a variety …
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Attitudinal Responses to Mixed Evidence: The Role of Attitude Extremity and Political Ideology in Effecting Change versus Resistance
… attitudes regarding abortion rights (Study 1), gun control (Study 2), tax increases (Study 3), and environmental preservation (Study 4) were assessed before and after reading statements that both opposed and supported the issue. Political ideology was also assessed, along with several individual …
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Making Crimes? Technology, Law, and DIY Firearms
<p>Most gun control frameworks are based on industrial-era assumptions about centralized factory production. Conventional weapons trafficking presumably entails transfers from legal supplies to illicit markets and users. However, there is speculation that "post-industrial" technologic conditions …
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Analyzing the Overturning of Roe vs Wade on Twitter using Natural Language Processing Techniques
… bigram of the most negative tweets, we witnessed gun control and healthcare as words that frequently occurred within the collection.</p>
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