Sentences with phrase «gun policy research»

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«There is no panic buying of guns because there is clearly no threat of federal government action in response to mass shootings that would restrict or regulate firearms,» Daniel Webster, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, wrote in an email.

That policy not only cut the number of guns in circulation but, based on the research, may have cut the firearm homicide and suicide rates too.

89 % terrorism 87 % economy 78 % immigration 78 % foreign policy 77 % gun policy 70 % Supreme Court appointments 70 % health care 70 % Social Security 62 % trade policy 59 % education 52 % abortion 51 % treatment of racial / ethnic minorities 34 % environment 29 % treatment of LGBT community [Pew Research Center # 8]

The coalition will also seek to crack down on guns that are transported across state borders, launching a Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium to stud the issue and create policy proposals.

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

«The research literature on gun policies is really very thin,» says Andrew Morral, a behavioral scientist at RAND, a nonpartisan institute based in Santa Monica, Calif..

Ideally, solid research leads to effective public health policies, which then reduce deaths, be it from guns, car accidents or fires.

In the same issue of Science, Philip Cook of Duke University and John Donohue of Stanford University published a Policy Forum discussing the challenges of gun research.

The science of gun policy: A critical synthesis of research evidence on the effects of gun policies in the United States.

Morral and his colleagues reviewed existing research on 13 types of gun policies, including concealed carry laws and waiting periods, and their impact on health, and safety, including mass shootings, suicides and accidental deaths.

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 increasing trend of gun violence in PG - 13 movies that we detected in 2012 continues unabated,» said Dan Romer, research director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and lead author of the article.

However, she says, there is essentially no federal funding for any kind of gun - violence prevention or policy research.

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.

The researchers examined respondents» deference to science on a scale of 0 - 10 when it came to 14 policy issues, including child vaccinations, stem cell research, global warming, child obesity and diet, AIDS prevention, birth control education, legalizing drug use, gun control, regulation of nuclear power, animal testing, and teaching evolution in schools.

A large majority of Americans — including gun owners — continue to support stronger policies to prevent gun violence than are present in current federal and most state law, according to a new national public opinion survey conducted by researchers with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Mental illness and reduction of gun violence and suicide: bringing epidemiologic research to policy.

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«Right now the research community is hampered in its ability to inform policymakers about the expected benefits and costs of different policy approaches because of politically ‑ motivated limits on data access, and substantial federal under ‑ funding of research on gun violence.»

«While science can teach us a lot about gun policy, research in this area is generally far behind where it is for most other causes of death that claim similar numbers of lives in the U.S. each year,» Morral said.

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 %.

«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.

Gun violence restraining orders (GVROs) are a promising strategy for reducing firearm homicide and suicide in the United States, and should be considered by states seeking to address gun violence, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of California, Davis, argue in a new report.

«The scientific community has long recognized the urgent need to summon science with its adherence to the identification, collection, and inspection of data, so that evidence may emerge and guide public policy,» Schaal wrote in an Op - ed published on 12 Sept. in The Hill, adding later, «Such scientific research is lacking in response to today's gun violence epidemic.

Most studies on gun violence «are really done on a shoe string and with easily available data,» and «we don't have a reporting system that is as standardized or reliable as it should be,» said Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in Baltimore, Maryland.

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«We think of guns being an incredibly controversial topic, but what your polling shows and our has shown is there's a whole lot of gun policies that really aren't controversial,» said professor and director of Johns Hopkins center for gun policy and research Daniel Webster.

For example, one commenter stated that gun shot wound, spousal abuse, and other kinds of information from emergency room statistics are often used to conduct research with ramifications for social policy, but may not be «related to health.»

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