When the Smoke Clears: Focusing Events, Issue Definition, Strategic Framing, and the Politics of Gun Control*

2016 ◽  
Vol 97 (5) ◽  
pp. 1144-1156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony K. Fleming ◽  
Paul E. Rutledge ◽  
Gregory C. Dixon ◽  
J. Salvador Peralta
Keyword(s):  
Gun Control ◽  
Focusing Events ◽  
Issue Definition ◽  
Strategic Framing

scholarly journals Mass Shootings and Public Support for Gun Control

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1527-1553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Newman ◽  
Todd K. Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Public Support ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Policy Feedback ◽  
Focusing Events ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
Multiple Data ◽  
Mass Shooting ◽  
Mass Opinion

The recent spate of mass public shootings in the United States raises important questions about how these tragic events might impact mass opinion and public policy. Integrating research on focusing events, contextual effects and perceived threat, this article stipulates that residing near a mass shooting should increase support for gun control by making the threat of gun violence more salient. Drawing upon multiple data sources on mass public shootings paired with large-N survey data, it demonstrates that increased proximity to a mass shooting is associated with heightened public support for stricter gun control. Importantly, the results show that this effect does not vary by partisanship, but does vary as a function of salience-related event factors, such as repetition, magnitude and recency. Critically, the core result is replicated using panel data. Together, these results suggest a process of context-driven policy feedback between existing gun laws, egregious gun violence and demand for policy change.

GROWTH AND DECLINE OF OPPOSING MOVEMENTS: GUN CONTROL AND GUN RIGHTS, 1945–2015*

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Eulalie Laschever ◽  
David S. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Organizational Capacity ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Focusing Events ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Government Records ◽  
Capacity Data ◽  
Public Opinion Polls

Movement-countermovement pairs develop in opposition to one another as they battle for position, influence, and survival in a shifting political and cultural context. While theoretical work on countermovements and the political context posits a rough symmetry between opposing movements, our analysis demonstrates significant asymmetries in the fight over gun policy in the United States. Drawing on news accounts, government records, public opinion polls, and organizational-capacity data for twenty-six gun control and twenty-nine gun rights groups, we show that both sides grow during policy fights and after focusing events, but the side with more stable revenue sustains growth longer. The gun rights movement’s financial advantages made it far less dependent on attention-grabbing moments. This imbalance reflects resource differences that affect each side’s capacity for responding to political opportunities and threats. Our findings highlight the need for more research on the implications of resource and power imbalances for effective organizing.

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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