More than 40 percent of U.S. adults have a gun in their household, making it hard to get guns off the streets – even if new gun restrictions are passed.
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Canada must decide if modern semi-automatic rifles should be widely available to its citizens. Our current classification system for such guns is irrational.
There’s not enough control around antique firearms – and criminals are taking advantage of this.
The Department of Education says there were 240 school shootings during a recent school year. Another database only counts 29. How could the numbers be so different – and who is right?
A battle over the Second Amendment is exactly the wrong way to think about the government’s role in the firearms industry.
Since the 1980s, anyone can purchase firearms without legal restrictions, in the form of parts kits. But there is an ominous difference between gun kit makers and the distribution of 3D gun plans.
Once a niche market, sustainable finance is now expanding and accelerating, yet too few universities have committed their finance programmes to these issues. The time has come for change.
There’s a disturbing disconnect between the polite etiquette of arms fairs and the hell that their products create.
In Australia, far fewer people are killed by police firearms than in the US – there are clear ways to ensure we never go down that path.
Research is the foundation for evidence-based policies. But because of funding prohibitions, there’s little US research to inform the contentious debate around gun violence and gun control.
Did the government-funded gun buybacks introduced after the Port Arthur massacre have “no effect” in reducing gun deaths in Australia, as an audience member claimed on Q&A? Let’s look at the evidence.
Horrific mass shootings in the US typically renew the national debate about gun policy. A gun researcher explains the lack of funding for study in this area and what that means for informed policy.
While advocates of gun control may feel powerless in the wake of mass shootings like the one in Las Vegas, the history of government support for the industry shows Americans have more sway than they think.
The police are cracking down on UK gun owners - but is out-sourcing intelligence gathering to the general public the right course of action?
If South Africa’s argument in court is that marijuana causes harm, it deserves to lose. The real question it should ask is whether criminal prohibition is the effective way forward.
How have state firearm laws changed over time? Over the past 27 years, some states have loosened the rules for gun owners and the gun industry, while others are getting stricter.
Ask when, not if, police in the UK ‘shoot to kill’ under revised policy.
America’s longstanding tradition of isolationism meant that in 1917 U.S. forces needed a lot of support from overseas allies to fight effectively.
A review of international research shows that police may well be better off without weapons.
3D printing still exists in a legal grey area. This area is slowly being defined as courts prosecute the first cases but, is current copyright and criminal law keeping up with the technology?
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Professor, History, Saint Mary’s University
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Penn State
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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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Professor of Criminology & Public Policy, University of Brighton
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Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Professor of Communication, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
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Regents' Professor & Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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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 Criminal Justice, Hamline University
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University
