Sentences with phrase «gun policies found»

«Two years after the tragedy in Newtown, our study of public support for two dozen specific gun policies found a large majority of Americans continue to favor a range of gun - safety policies,» says lead study author Colleen Barry, PhD, MPP, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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He has now returned to the financial data firm he founded but is hardly giving up his high - wattage policy activism — leading campaigns for gun control and against smoking and obesity.

Gbowee found even more cause for celebration in the efforts of the Parkland students to hold the government accountable for gun control policy.

Since the Las Vegas massacre, at least two states — New Jersey and Massachusetts — have passed laws banning bump stocks and other states are considering them, said David Chipman, senior policy advisor at Giffords, the gun safety organization founded by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly.

Assemblyman Sheldon Silver — one of the most powerful men in Albany for two decades and a constant in shaping state policy under five governors — was found guilty Monday of selling his office for legal fees, capping a trial that cast new light on the capital's lax ethics laws and handing federal prosecutors a big win in a case that had lacked a smoking gun.

The Post-ABC poll also finds that 58 percent of adults say stricter gun control laws could have prevented the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, but there is no rise in support for banning assault weapons compared with two years ago and the partisan divide on this policy is as stark as ever.

The analysts found little or no research on the impact of other policies, including gun - free zones, firearm sales reporting requirements and bans on assault weapons.

The analysis of movies from 1985 - 2015 by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania updates an earlier APPC study which found that gun violence in top - grossing PG - 13 movies began to exceed that in comparable R - rated movies in 2012.

A paper on the findings showed, among other things, that the restrictive policies regulating gun shows in California resulted in fewer illegal «straw» purchases — in which someone buys a gun on behalf of a person legally barred from doing so — than in other states.

After accounting for numerous other factors such as income, education and political ideology, the researchers found that for each one point increase (on a scale from one to five) in symbolic racism there was a 50 percent increase in the odds of having a gun in the home and a 28 percent increase in support for policies allowing people to carry concealed guns.

Dr O'Brien said: «Coming from countries with strong gun control policies, and a 30-fold lower rate of gun - related homicides, we found the arguments for opposing gun control counterintuitive and somewhat illogical.

The findings are from RAND's sweeping Gun Policy in America initiative, which also evaluated the views of gun policy experts with opposing perspectives on the likely effects of gun laws to identify where compromise might be posPolicy in America initiative, which also evaluated the views of gun policy experts with opposing perspectives on the likely effects of gun laws to identify where compromise might be pospolicy experts with opposing perspectives on the likely effects of gun laws to identify where compromise might be possible.

In many cases, researchers found no studies linking gun policies to the many effects they examined.

A new study conducted by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital investigated sports - and recreation - related eye injuries during a 23 - year period and found a slight decrease in eye injuries overall; however, the rate of eye injury associated with non-powder guns (including BB, pellet and paintball guns) increased by almost 170 %.

After reviewing shows on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox, Media Matter found that segments covered substantial education policy issues — school reform, teacher tenure, the Common Core State Standards, school choice, early childhood education and guns in schools — but typically failed to include educator input.

But if you read the policy, you'll find that there are sublimits for guns, fine arts, and theft of jewelry among other classes of property.

Composed of thousands of found objects, millions of beads, and not one of his signature Soundsuits, «Until» addresses some of today's most poignant issues, from gun violence and gun control policies to race relations and gender politics.

For added financial protection, policy holders may protect themselves from possible liability concerns with a personal umbrella policy, which provides extra liability coverage for guns and other incidents for which the insured might be found liable.

But she swiftly sought to minimize any policy differences with the White House, saying: «I know that people are trying to find daylight between President Trump and 5 million law - abiding gun owners.»