The Mass Casualty Commission into the mass shooting in Nova Scotia in 2020 makes several recommendations to meaningfully change Canada’s gun laws.
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Even fake guns can be dangerous if they are mistaken for real ones by the police or other armed adults.
Keeping weapons locked away and unloaded reduces the risk of death by suicide for gun owners and their children.
Much of the public discussion on preventing school shootings is about whether and how to limit people’s access to firearms. But other strategies can reduce the risk for violence.
Watching gun violence on screen can desensitize children to the harm caused by firearms.
Support for strong gun ownership rights is often associated with conservative Christian views, but religion and self-defense have a much longer history in the United States.
Research shows that removing guns from violent abusers saves lives. But laws doing just that are at risk of being ruled unconstitutional, following a landmark Supreme Court guns case.
Colorado is one of 19 states that have laws in place to prevent individuals believed to pose a threat from obtaining guns. But a preventive order needs to be petitioned before it can be issued.
Two states had guns directly on the ballot in midterm election initiatives. Voters moved state laws in opposite directions.
Election-related violence isn’t unheard of in the US. A scholar of gun laws explains how the threat is only increased by allowing people to carry firearms as they vote.
A recent French Senate report calling on a ban on alcohol use while hunting has prompted the wrath of the country’s hunting lobby. Do its arguments hold water?
Recent news reports highlight rising rates of gun crime in two-thirds of England and Wales’s police jurisdictions.
A burst of federal funding is letting Indianapolis expand existing efforts and try promising new approaches that other cities have developed.
Historically, most mass shootings in South Africa have been associated with three main things: gang conflicts, rivalries in the minibus taxi sector and factional or inter-group feuds.
A scholar of gun culture looks at the roots of Americans’ love affair with firearms – and their willingness to accept gun violence as a price of freedom.
Congress has pushed through its first gun control legislation in 30 years. Included in the legislation is a provision to expand a firearm ban to dating partners accused of domestic violence.
The ways Americans talk about firearms is full of contradictions, two communication scholars explain – and that powerfully shapes the country’s approach to gun policy.
The share price of gun-makers Smith & Wesson and Sturm Ruger both jumped after the Uvalde massacre. In the past, gun-makers were punished after a shooting, but things have changed.
A closer look at firearms sales reveals some interesting trends that should be part of America’s ongoing conversation about the root causes of gun violence.
A school shooting in a small Texas town was almost as deadly as the worst such event in US history. Such shootings have increased in frequency over the last few years.
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Penn State
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Professor, History, Saint Mary’s University
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Professor of Criminology & Public Policy, University of Brighton
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Visiting Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University
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PhD Candidate - Research focus 'Criminal armourers and illegal firearm supply in England and Wales', University of Brighton
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Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Hamline University
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Co-Director, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University
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