+ The Million Mom March: engaging the public on gun policy
- Author:
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Wallack, L. / Winett, L. / Nettekoven, L.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- J Public Health Policy
- Topics:
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Age Group, Education/Counseling, Gender, Legislation and Policy, Public Opinion
- Keywords:
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Children, GUN control, advocacy, gun, woman
The authors read more than 200 news accounts and conducted over 40 interviews with key participants in the May 14 (Mother’s Day) 2000 Million Mom March, probably the most successful public advocacy event...
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+ Gun Policy, Opinion, Tragedy, and Blame Attribution: The Conditional Influence of Issue Frames
- Author:
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Haider-Markel, Donald P. / Joslyn, Mark R.
- Date:
- 2001
- Publication:
- Journal of Politics
- Topics:
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Crime, Legislation and Policy, Public Opinion
- Keywords:
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Policy Making, Public Opinion, gun policy, mass murder, policitcal processes
The authors explore the effect of “framing” on public opinion about gun policies and “blame” for the school shooting in Columbine, Colorado. In the first study, the authors use a survey of adults to explore...
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+ Rethinking the Political Participation Paradigm: The Case of Women and Gun Control
- Author:
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Goss, Kristin A.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Women & Politics
- Topics:
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Gender, Legislation and Policy, Public Health, Public Opinion, Social Science
- Keywords:
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GUN control, Million Mom March, activism, protest
The author examines the Million Mom March, a protest march for stricter gun control laws held in 2000, that aimed to recruit American women into gun control activism and to demonstrate the enormous support...
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+ Guns Under Fire
- Author:
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Heyboer K / Rosen J
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- American Journalism Review
- Topics:
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Gun Carrying, International, Legislation and Policy, Public Opinion
- Keywords:
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Gun carrying, journalist, neutrality, war zone
The author reports the different perspectives of the debate within journalistic circles about the effects of journalists arming themselves during assignments in dangerous areas. Journalistic tradition...
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+ Making Corporate and Criminal America Less Violent: Public Norms and Structural Reforms
- Author:
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Hagan, J. / Foster, H.
- Date:
- 2000
- Publication:
- Contemporary Sociology
- Topics:
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Gun Carrying, Homicide, International, Legislation and Policy, Public Health, Public Opinion
- Keywords:
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HOMICIDE, gun control policy, gun violence, handguns, record checks, registration
The authors compare the gun control policies of the U.S. and Canada, arguing that Canada’s restrictive gun control policies as opposed to America’s permissive policies may explain why gun-related homicide...
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+ Police Chiefs' Perceptions of the Regulation of Firearms
- Author:
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Thompson, Amy / Price, James H. / Dake, Joseph A. / Tatchell, Thomas
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Law Enforcement, Legislation and Policy, Public Opinion, Supply
- Keywords:
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PUBLIC health, demographic characteristics, firearm control advocacy, firearms regulation, police chiefs perceptions
405 police chiefs completed a survey designed to assess the likelihood of respondents’ firearm policy support, interest, exposure, involvement with firearm control advocacy, demographic and background...
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+ Modeling Facts, Culture, and Cognition in the Gun Debate
- Author:
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Braman, Donald / Kahan, Dan / Grimmelmann, James
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Social Justice Research
- Topics:
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Legislation and Policy, Public Opinion
- Keywords:
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COGNITION & culture, Cross-cultural studies, DELIBERATION, GUN control, SOCIALIZATION
The authors reviewed social psychology literature in order to identify the mechanisms that systematically cause individuals to conform their factual beliefs about guns to their culturally grounded moral...
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+ NRA = No Rational Argument? How the National Rifle Association Exploits Public Irrationality
- Author:
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Medlock, Scott
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights
- Topics:
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Legislation and Policy, Ownership, Public Opinion
- Keywords:
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GUN control, Law & legislation, NATIONAL Rifle Association of America, Safety, UNITED States
This paper 1) describes the legislative power of the NRA, 2) reviews the literature on irrationality and risk, and 3) demonstrates how the NRA exploits these irrationalities more successfully than gun...
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+ Parents' perceptions of causes of and solutions for school violence: implications for policy
- Author:
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Bliss, M. J. / Emshoff, J. / Buck, C. A. / Cook, S. L.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- J Prim Prev
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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Legislation and Policy, Ownership, Public Opinion, Storage, Students, Supply
- Keywords:
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Adolescent, Adult, Child, Child Behavior/ psychology, Firearms/ legislation & jurisprudence
In metropolitan Atlanta, interviewers questioned 202 parents of children in grades 1-12 about school violence, parental behavior, and gun ownership. Of the respondents, 94 indicated that they owned a...
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+ Overcoming the fear of guns, the fear of gun control, and the fear of cultural politics: constructing a better gun debate
- Author:
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Braman, Donald / Kahan, Dan M.
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- Emory Law Journal
- Topics:
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Legislation and Policy, Public Opinion, Surveillance/Data Collection
- Keywords:
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DEBATES & debating, FIREARMS -- Law & legislation, GUN control, Social policy, UNITED States
Individuals’ positions on gun control express cultural values, a fact ignored in the dominant approaches to gun policy-making in the U.S. Because of the values attached to guns, the controversy over...
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+ Putting the gun control debate in social perspective
- Author:
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Chemerinsky E
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- Fordham Law Review
- Topics:
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Legislation and Policy, Ownership, Public Opinion, U.S./National
- Keywords:
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Constitution, Firearms, Second Amendment, rights
The author reviews and contrasts some of the common, and competing, arguments put forth by liberal and conservative regarding the Second Amendment. Generally, liberal individuals will defend the individual...
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