Gun lobbies and gun control: Senate voting patterns on the Brady Bill and the assault weapons ban

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 384-393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo H. Kahane
Keyword(s):  
Gun Control ◽  
Assault Weapons

scholarly journals Gun Control Policy to Prevent Public Mass Shootings: Regression Lines of Discontinuety Study (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Post ◽  
Maryann Mason ◽  
Lauren Nadya Singh ◽  
Nicholas P Wleklinski ◽  
Charles B Moss ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Mass Shootings ◽  
Large Capacity ◽  
Widespread Agreement ◽  
Significant Public Health ◽  
Assault Weapons

BACKGROUND Public mass shootings are a significant public health problem that require systematic surveillance to inform policies that combat gun injuries. While there is widespread agreement that something needs to be done to stop public mass shootings, exactly which policies that entails varies such as the prohibition of assault weapons and large capacity magazines. OBJECTIVE Needs to be added METHODS The FAWB resulted in a significant decrease in public mass shootings, number of gun deaths and injuries. We estimate the FAWB prevented 11 public mass shootings during the decade the ban was in place. A continuation of the FAWB would have prevented 30 public mass shootings that killed 339 people and injured an additional 1139 people. RESULTS The FAWB resulted in a significant decrease in public mass shootings, number of gun deaths and injuries. We estimate the FAWB prevented 11 public mass shootings during the decade the ban was in place. A continuation of the FAWB would have prevented 30 public mass shootings that killed 339 people and injured an additional 1139 people. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates the utility of public health surveillance on gun violence. Surveillance informs policy on whether a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines reduces public mass shootings. As society searches for effective policies to prevent the next public mass shooter, we must consider the overwhelming evidence that assault weapon bans and/or large capacity magazine bans work. CLINICALTRIAL NA

Why We Need Gun Control

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Lafollette
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Strict Liability ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Liability Insurance ◽  
Indirect Methods ◽  
Assault Weapons ◽  
The Way

Are there compelling reasons why we should not have serious gun control at least in the United States? Would any attempt at control fail in the way that Prohibition failed? I explain why the comparison with Prohibition is illicit. I propose how we should proceed incrementally given the absence of wholly convincing rights-based or empirical arguments. We can implement a series of small forms of control: universal registration, an assault weapons ban, retaining gun-free zones, among others. I then explore indirect methods of achieving some aims of control without employing explicit coercion. In particular, I argue that gun owners should be required to carry liability insurance to guarantee that those harmed by guns are appropriately and adequately compensated. This could be augmented by a policy of strict liability.

Canadian Doctors for Protection from Guns: how physicians contributed to policy change

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 499-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua S Ng-Kamstra ◽  
Jason Lajoie
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Political Advocacy ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
The Public ◽  
Assault Weapons

Physicians played a key role in advancing Canada's recent assault weapons ban. Indeed, after announcing the ban in May 2020, the Trudeau government thanked Dr. Najma Ahmed and the group Canadian Doctors for Protection from Guns (CDPG) for their support of responsible gun control measures. In this piece, we explore the context in which CDPG was formed, the strategies used by the group in building nationwide support for gun control measures, and the public health framing of their messaging that proved critical in engendering political change. The work of CDPG holds valuable lessons for physicians seeking to engage in political advocacy by bearing witness to the harms experienced by their patients.

Trajectories of Radicalization After the Failure of Gun Control and Animal Rights Protests

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnifred R. Louis ◽  
Emma F. Thomas ◽  
Fathali M. Moghaddam ◽  
Catherine E. Amiot ◽  
Ella Cottrell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Rights ◽  
Gun Control

Influence of gun control, race, and age of victim for mentally ill defendants accused of murder: A mock juror examination

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russ K. E. Espinoza ◽  
Ashley Adkins ◽  
Jenna Popoff ◽  
Patrick Lam ◽  
Milli Chumpitaz
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Mock Juror ◽  
Gun Control

Exceptional America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mugambi Jouet
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
Wealth Inequality ◽  
Law School ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
American Conservatism ◽  
The Bible

Americans are far more divided than other Westerners over basic issues, including wealth inequality, health care, climate change, evolution, the literal truth of the Bible, apocalyptical prophecies, gender roles, abortion, gay rights, sexual education, gun control, mass incarceration, the death penalty, torture, human rights, and war. The intense polarization of U.S. conservatives and liberals has become a key dimension of American exceptionalism—an idea widely misunderstood as American superiority. It is rather what makes America an exception, for better or worse. While exceptionalism once was largely a source of strength, it may now spell decline, as unique features of U.S. history, politics, law, culture, religion, and race relations foster grave conflicts and injustices. They also shed light on the peculiar ideological evolution of American conservatism, which long predated Trumpism. Anti-intellectualism, conspiracy-mongering, radical anti-governmentalism, and Christian fundamentalism are far more common in America than Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Drawing inspiration from Alexis de Tocqueville, Mugambi Jouet explores American exceptionalism’s intriguing roots as a multicultural outsider-insider. Raised in Paris by a French mother and Kenyan father, he then lived throughout America, from the Bible Belt to New York, California, and beyond. His articles have notably been featured in The New Republic, Slate, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, and Le Monde. He teaches at Stanford Law School.

Development of a Power Supply Source for the Technological Electron-beam Gun Control Electrode

Vestnik MEI ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-92
Author(s):  
Nikita M. Vakhmyanin ◽  
◽  
Aleksey V. Shcherbakov ◽  
Daria A. Gaponova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Beam ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Supply Source ◽  
Control Electrode ◽  
Power Supply Source
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