Sentences with phrase «state gun culture»

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And like the United States, Australia had both an entrenched gun culture and a pro-gun lobby (though not nearly as strong).

Manhattan Democratic Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal introduced a bill that would outlaw all high school shooting sports programs in the state — including air rifle teams and archery clubs — on the premise that they feed into a gun and shooting culture that could lead to violence.

But they are the boogeyman of politics, because in any state with a significant gun culture, they can make or break politicians with a single mailing campaign.

Gun culture runs deep across upstate, where many remain bitterly opposed to the SAFE Act, the controversial state gun control legislation passed after the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012.

She would also examine whether gun laws and culture «spill over» to affect such statistics in neighboring states.

Economist Bisakha Sen wants to study how US states» gun laws and gun cultures correlate with certain crimes and with firearms deaths in each state — and whether differing laws and cultures in neighboring states «spill over» to influence a state's statistics.

(2001) in the same year, a work that seems to reflect on gun culture and mass shootings in the United States.

I suspected that the «culture of the gun» was just as firmly entrenched on the streets of Scarborough as it was in Harlem, and the average Canuck wouldn't fare out any better in a street interview about peculiarities of the USA than Rick Mercer's hapless Yankee victims did when quizzed about the supposed state of affairs in our Great White North.