Sentences with phrase «of gun research»

For researchers who manage to navigate the legal tangles and funding troubles of gun research, actually doing the research itself isn't easy.

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.

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The CDC, says Wintemute, has incorrectly «interpreted that as a mandate not to do research» on the public health dangers of guns and the epidemiology of gun violence.

Although gun violence is one of the leading causes of death in America, it is also one of the most poorly researched, according to a January 2017 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The study ascribed this dearth of research to restrictions — namely a 21 - year - old congressional appropriations bill called the «Dickey Amendment» that stipulated «none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.»

«Horrific mass killings receive the most media attention, but as can be seen by the numbers, they only represent a small portion of the total costs - human and medical - of gun injuries in the United States,» said David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center in Boston, who was not involved with the study.

While a majority of Americans believe this to be true — 63 % say guns make them safer — decades of crime data and research overwhelmingly shows both that armed civilians are not the solution to mass shooters and that guns don't make people safer.

Instead of hired guns, Klein insists, «the right way to do research in a start - up is to have the people who are responsible for making decisions about your product intimately involved in the research itself.»

A recent research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that gun violence is the least - researched leading cause of death in the United States.

«Within the United States, a wide array of empirical evidence indicates that more guns in a community leads to more homicide,» David Hemenway, the Injury Control Research Center's director, wrote in Private Guns, Public Heaguns in a community leads to more homicide,» David Hemenway, the Injury Control Research Center's director, wrote in Private Guns, Public HeaGuns, Public Health.

Based on the research, the presence of more guns typically translates to much more general gun violence, while justified uses of a gun for self - defense are few and far between.

Here, for example, are the results of surveys by the Pew Research Center, which found strong support for measures ranging from an assault weapons ban to universal background checks to restrictions on people with mental illness buying guns.

The research, compiled by the Harvard School of Public Health's Injury Control Research Center, is pretty clear: After controlling for variables such as socioeconomic factors and other crime, places with more guns have more gunresearch, compiled by the Harvard School of Public Health's Injury Control Research Center, is pretty clear: After controlling for variables such as socioeconomic factors and other crime, places with more guns have more gunResearch Center, is pretty clear: After controlling for variables such as socioeconomic factors and other crime, places with more guns have more gun deaths.

If America wants to confront its gun violence problem, then, the research suggests it should look to reducing the number of guns in circulation — not putting more armed people into schools.

He told me he's done the research on different gun control proposals, and opposes nearly all of them, telling me that ideas lifted up by his Parkland classmates (like lowering magazine capacity or reinstating the federal assault weapons ban) are «likely unconstitutional and likely statistically devoid of benefit.»

This sentiment has been fueled by a decades - long public campaign by the NRA to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms, and that more guns will actually make people safer (by letting them protect themselves), despite research that shows higher levels of gun ownership actually lead to more gun violence.

«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.

But the research suggests that owning a gun actually increases the risk of death.

Then you can do a little bit of research and find out that very few companies ever achieve this valuation in a trade sale so you're clearly gunning for an IPO.

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.

The research supports gun control: A 2016 review of 130 studies in 10 countries, published in Epidemiologic Reviews, found that new legal restrictions on owning and purchasing guns tended to be followed by a drop in gun violence — a strong indicator that restricting access to guns can save lives.

Part of the package also includes a report clarifying that the CDC can conduct research on gun violence, reversing a 22 - year - old prohibition.

It also provides money to improve school security, strengthens the system of background checks on gun buyers, and provides some funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct research on gun violence.

«Most of the paid ads the Internet Research Agency ran on Facebook prior to the 2016 election didn't mention Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump — but they did mention divisive political issues like guns, LGBT rights, immigration, and racial issues,» said Sen. Mark Warner, D - Va., who along with Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D - Minn., and John McCain, R - Ariz., have sponsored the bill.

According to a recent Public Religion Research Institute survey, 8 % of white evangelical Protestants favor tighter gun laws.

And the research about the effectiveness of gun controls laws seems mixed at best.

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]

Today is the second day of the college's gun violence research symposium, at which officials and experts are discussing the issues and potential solutions.

The measures would extend background check times from three days to 10, create a gun violence research institute and block anyone from purchasing a gun who has been convicted of a hate crime.

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 gun industry and its allies often attempt to block research and data - gathering on gun violence, but analysis like this can both demonstrate the life - saving effectiveness of sensible gun laws, and also help us prevent gun crimes and solve them when they occur.

The four proposals — which also includes the creation of a «research institute» to study gun violence — are hardly «radical,» Stewart - Cousins said.

Rachel supports banning the future sales of assault rifles, enacting universal background checks and providing funding to research gun violence.

If you're also slashing aid to research of mental health, if you are cutting ways to research the link between gun violence and mental health, you can't just say it's a mental health issue.

Research shows that people experiencing a crisis that puts them at risk of suicide are much more likely to survive if they do not have easy access to guns during the crisis.

Reporting by a various agencies on Thursday, indicates Biden is looking at a mixture of «universal» background checks, additional research on the causes of gun violence and a similar ban on high capacity magazines as proposed for New York.

The Constitutional Research Council's chairman set up a business in 2013 with the former head of Saudi intelligence and a Danish «private banker» who has previously admitted to openDemocracy that he was involved in the Purulia Arms drop, which was a major Indian gun - running plot in 1995.

Gianaris» bill comes on the heels of an announcement by Gov. Cuomo that New York, five other states, and Puerto Rico are working together to research and analyze gun violence and improve and share data collection.

Today's research was released at the start of the Police Federation's annual conference, and chairwoman Jan Berry said they revealed the need for more firearms officers to deal with the increasing number of gun crimes reported each year.

Another section of the resolution links New York's strict gun laws to the state's low rates of gun crime, while criticizing some state senators who have voted against «common sense» gun laws like a ban on bump stocks, improved background checks and state funding for research on gun violence.

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.

The executive actions might include more gun research, increased enforcement of existing laws and better sharing of gun databases.

Asked about including new rules for scientific research of guns in the bill, Emanuel suggested that was extraneous, comparing it to the distracting talk of «midnight basketball» programs the last time Congress tried to pass major gun control legislation in the early 1990s.

(WBEN) A new poll from the Siena Research Institute shows extensive support - among both Republicans and Democrats in New York State — for a mandatory waiting period on gun purchases but a split over arming some teachers and possibly banning the sale of assault style weapons in the United States...

House Democrats, who've sought to draw attention to their push for gun control legislation in the wake of recent mass shootings, emphasized a new demand during the day as they announced their opposition to any bill that doesn't undo a longstanding provision that has been interpreted to block the Centers for Disease Control from conducting research on gun violence.

She also spoke of her other efforts in Congress, such as working to ban assault weapons and forming a bipartisan committee to research the causes and effects of gun violence.

Newly - released numbers from Siena Research Institute suggest a wide majority of New York State residents support Gov. Andrew Cuomo's gun control legislation known as the SAFE Act and oppose the idea of arming teachers.

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AAAS affirms the importance of research to better understand and curb gun violence in a letter to Reps. Maloney and Markey.

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