Sentences with phrase «firearm violence»

She added that «the agency continues to accept research applications about violence, including firearms violence,» through general funding mechanisms.

«Everything that was true of firearm violence in the early 1980s is still true today,» he declares.

In June 2016, the state of California passed legislation that publicly funds the University of California Firearm Violence Research Center.

He was also concerned that Congress «essentially bans federally funded research into firearm violence.»

Responding to the Crisis of Firearm Violence in the United States: Comment on «Firearm Legislation and Firearm - Related Fatalities in the United States.»

The only sound was the voice of Congressman Joe Kennedy III, whose family has been profoundly affected by firearm violence, slowly...

Wintemute, an emergency department doctor and longtime director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, today also heads the newly inaugurated University of California Firearm Violence Research Center, launched in July 2017 with a $ 5 - million, five - year commitment of state funding.

Others would set aside funding for firearm violence research, outlaw guns not detectable by x-ray and make it a crime to improperly secure a weapon at home.

The horrifying mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School offered yet another tragic reminder of America's gun problem: The US has much more firearm violence than its developed peers.

The tragic mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, caused me to look back at some of the gun violence - related articles and television newscasts written and aired in the early 2000s about firearm violence in Albany.

«Acts of firearm violence like Sunday's horrific mass shooting in Orlando leave us searching for answers.

Epidemiologist Garen Wintemute, who studies firearm violence at UC Davis, says it is «coincidental» that the state legislature vote occurred so soon after the massacre in Orlando.

Carter said, «After controlling for a range of possible explanatory factors, the relationship between firearm violence and subsequent legal gun permitting is quite present.»

Theoretically, nonviolent crime receives noticeably less media attention and does not carry the heightened degree of sensitivity that comes with firearm violence.

«There's just no question that alcohol abuse is a risk factor for future violence in the general population, and it's specifically a risk factor for future firearm violence,» he says.

On the heels of the Sandy Hook murders, President Barack Obama in 2013 ordered the CDC and other health research agencies to resume firearms violence research, on the grounds that the Dickey amendment prohibits advocacy for gun control but not research on gun violence.

The agency wasn't coy: the program's title included the words «Particularly Firearm Violence.»

The California Legislature approved $ 5 million in June to establish a University of California research center on firearm violence.

They know, for example, that although urban schools typically don't experience mass shootings, the students in their schools are far more likely to experience firearm violence and death.

Those key findings of a study, «Parents» Expectations of High Schools in Firearm Violence Prevention,» were published in a recent issue of the Journal of Community Health.

And no meaningful policy can come until Congress acknowledges everyday firearms violence — not only mass tragedies — as a problem.

Exposure to firearm violence approximately doubles the probability that an adolescent will engage in serious violence over the subsequent two years, so that effects of maltreatment are similar to those of exposure to gun violence.

In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Kingston Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

The new California Firearm Violence Research Center will be run by the University of California system.

Jeffrey Swanson, professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences, has researched laws and policies to reduce firearms violence.

The only sound was the voice of Congressman Joe Kennedy III, whose family has been profoundly affected by firearm violence, slowly...

The Epidemiology of Firearm Violence in the Twenty - First Century United States.

Four days after a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, left 49 people dead and 53 injured, California's state legislature voted yesterday to establish a $ 5 - million firearm violence research center within the University of California (UC)-- the first such publicly charted center in the country.

And yet, as painful as such events are, and as much as they seem to increasingly define America's uniquely violent profile among developed nations, they account for just 1 - 2 % of all gun - related deaths in the U.S. «We lose upwards of 90 people a day on average to firearm violence, to suicide and homicide,» says Wintemute.

Since the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month, renewed calls for remedies to firearms violence have led to sweeping consumer boycotts and unprecedented moves by corporate America to distance itself from the powerful gun lobby.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> In response to a series of school shootings across the country, the Common Council may seek federal and state action for more stringent gun control, including a freer hand for research into firearm violence.

Queens Sen. Malcolm Smith said upstaters who oppose laws like the NY SAFE Act don't understand the level of firearms violence that plagues some New York City neighborhoods.

One oft - stated explanation is that the gun lobby has quashed federal funding for research into firearms violence.

The paper, «Firearm Violence and Effects on Concealed Gun Carrying: Large Debate and Small Effects,» found there is a consistent link between violent crime — especially crimes that involve guns — and an increase in the number of people issued carry permits over two time periods examined in the study, said Jeremy Carter, an assistant professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis.

Given the complexity of legal gun carrying, Carter and his co-author included a number of control variables that helped to isolate the effects of firearm violence.

The money from California is separately enabling new work, beginning with a survey of some 2,000 Californians looking at the prevalence of firearm ownership and of firearm violence and its consequences.

«It is the premiere public health agency, and firearms violence has all the features of a big public health problem.»

Prior to a Thursday screening of «Winchester,» a ghost story whose protagonist comes down on the pro-gun control side of the firearms violence debate, a smattering of multiplex attendees and I watched a trailer for the new «Death Wish» (opening March 2).

Prior to a Thursday screening of «Winchester,» a ghost story whose protagonist comes down on the pro-gun control side of the firearms violence debate, a smattering of multiplex attendees and I watched a trailer for the new «Death Wish» (opening March...

Sadly, gun and firearm violence has steadily increased in the United States throughout the years.

The bills would have strengthened the state's background check system and set aside state funding for research into firearm violence.

That's because for all the justified focus on the Stoneman Douglas massacre, our firearms violence problem goes well beyond schools.

The only sound was the voice of Congressman Joe Kennedy III, whose family has been profoundly affected by firearm violence, slowly reading the names of the students and adults killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.