Sentences with phrase «gun policy»

Turning millions of people into criminals over a stupid do nothing gun policy is not the answer.

Despite wide acknowledgement that gun violence levels are too high, little consensus has been reached about what gun policies should be adopted widely.

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

Most other studies demonstrate only an association between gun policies and outcomes, which offers less - persuasive evidence that the policies caused changes in the outcomes.

March 1, 2018 • President Trump challenged long - standing GOP orthodoxy on gun policy in a meeting Wednesday.

WASHINGTON Action on gun legislation skidded to a halt Thursday in Congress not for a lack of bipartisan proposals, but because President Donald Trump's stunning shift on gun policy left some in his party confused, irritated and scrambling to figure out what to do next.

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 possible.

President Trump backed a Senate proposal to expand background checks on gun sales, as part of a call for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. gun policy in the wake of the Florida school shooting.

WASHINGTON — Action on gun legislation skidded to a halt Thursday in Congress — not for a lack of bipartisan proposals, but because President Donald Trump's stunning shift on gun policy left some in his party confused, irritated and scrambling to figure out what to do next.

The gun - control group Giffords has put out its annual scorecard, ranking states on their gun laws as the nation is again embroiled in debate about gun policy in the wake of a shooting that killed 17 people at a Florida high school on Valentine's Day.

Rep. Todd Rokita (R - IN) is pushing to end Citibank's federal contract after the finance giant adopted new gun policies that do not respect the Second Amendment.

In a 2013 interview with Mother Jones, gun policy expert Lee Drutman said that congresspeople are well - aware of the NRA's influence in their own states or districts.

He said his activist group will not endorse candidates, but focus on changing gun policy and curbing gun deaths.

«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.

Responsible gun policy is a moral issue.

«Americans are experiencing a heated debate over gun policy in the wake of the latest school shooting,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

RAND researchers evaluated thousands of studies to assess the available evidence for the effect of 13 common gun policies on a range of outcomes, including injuries and deaths, mass shootings, defensive gun use, and participation in hunting and sport shooting.

«The goal of this project is to help build consensus around a shared set of facts about gun policy by demonstrating where scientific evidence is accumulating,» said Andrew Morral, the project's leader and a behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

In 2016, the Associated Press found that only 15 percent of Americans believed gun policy should be a top - five political priority of that year.

A common counterpoint to the evidence on gun control: If it works so well, why does Chicago have so much gun violence despite having some of the strictest gun policies in the US?

I have long been skeptical that there will be any big gun policy reforms in the US.

JUMP THE GUN Arguments about which gun laws might reduce gun violence are hard to settle, given how little research there is on gun policy effectiveness, but a new study has some answers.

He has also worked with California lawmakers on crafting gun policy and helped to drive a group of gun - making companies out of business.

While our nation considers how to address gun violence, it is important to remember that scientific research can help us understand risk factors and the impacts of gun policy interventions at federal, state and local levels,» said Rush Holt, chief executive officer of AAAS, in a March 13 letter sent to President Donald Trump and congressional leadership.

«Two years after Newtown — public opinion on gun policy revisited» was written by Colleen Barry, PhD, MPP, Emma Beth McGinty, PhD, MS, Jon Vernick, JD, MPH and Daniel Webster, ScD, MPH.

«Large majority of Americans — including gun owners — support stronger gun policies.»

«All too often, pollsters ask Americans whether they support more or less gun control, or frame gun policies as controls on gun ownership generally rather than as measures to keep guns from criminals or other high - risk groups,» Barry says.

«Two - year study of gun policy research finds gaps, proposes fixes: Persuasive evidence exists for child access prevention laws, some other common policies.»

«Collecting more and stronger evidence about the true effects of laws is a necessary and promising step toward building greater consensus around effective gun policy.»

To encourage more high - quality research, the Gun Policy in America project created a large database of state - level U.S. gun policy laws, covering the period of 1979 to 2016.

These students, raised entirely after the Columbine massacre, well - educated, media and social media savvy, have captured a tremendous amount of attention and have openly expressed the frustration and exasperation with the nation's complete standstill on gun policy purchased by millions of dollars in political donations by the NRA.

Keeping children safe at school means more than instituting gun policies.

«As a child she's not allowed a political voice through the vote, but schoolchildren have to face the brutal consequences of irresponsible gun policy and inept or impotent politicians,» Aiko Smith said.

«We are aiming to break the stranglehold that the NRA has on blocking rational gun policy,» Smith said, promoting No NRA Money in an early - March interview on MSNBC program «AM Joy.»

Yet the law envisions a top - down, one - size - fits - all approach that prevents local government leaders from pursuing their own gun policies.

From the grieving students swarming Tallahassee Wednesday to the public grilling of Sen. Marco Rubio at a CNN forum Wednesday night, Florida — long a proving ground for national gun policy — is again at the center of the storm in the wake of last week's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in suburban Fort Lauderdale.

Now the largest comprehensive analysis of research on U.S. gun policy in years offers some answers, but also troublingly little guidance.

Dick's said its hunting business posted negative comparable - store sales and expects the challenges to continue this year, with its new gun policies being an additional burden.

Action on gun legislation skidded to a halt yesterday in Congress — not for a lack of bipartisan proposals, but because Trump's stunning shift on gun policy left some in his party confused, irritated and scrambling to figure out what to do next.

«Last week's shooting revitalized the debate over gun policy,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

Gun owners are 80 percent more likely than non-gun owners to have contacted a public official about gun policy in the past year.

Because there is so little scientific evidence to draw on, RAND researchers also surveyed 95 gun policy experts from across the ideological spectrum to identify where there might be consensus or opportunities for compromise.

Support for the governor erodes further when voters were asked whether they liked his handling of gun policy.

President Donald Trump backed a U.S. Senate proposal to expand background checks on gun sales, as part of a call for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. gun policy in the wake of the Florida school shooting.

About 28 percent of gun owners have contributed to an organization that takes a position on gun policy, while only 10 percent of non-gun owners have.

Bass Pro Shops has never sold those kind of accessories in its stores, but the company has not yet announced changes to its gun policies in the wake of the Parkland shooting.

Earlier this year, I published research showing that people can think a gun policy could be effective and still be against it.