Gun Violence in the United States

User icon Heather Dray
30 October 2023
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US Firearms Policy in practice and review.


Brookings Institution · 16 May 2023 English

Although this hearing focuses on left-wing violence and movements like Antifa, it is vital to recognize that in recent years violence linked to white supremacist, anti-government, and other causes lumped …


Brookings Institution · 23 January 2023 English

Gun violence continues to be a major public health crisis across the country with the rise of mass shootings. There were more than 600 mass shooting events that took place …


ISD: Institute for Strategic Dialogue · 11 August 2023 English

He is author of the ISD to the German Ministry of the Justice and provided reports The Propaganda Pipeline: The ISIS Fuouaris evidence to the German Minister of the Interior …


American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 14 November 2023 English

In the summer of 2022, following a pair of highly publicized mass-casualty shootings in upstate New York and West Texas, a bitterly divided United States Congress responded to a groundswell …


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 5 October 2023 English

Firearm violence is a pervasive public health crisis in the United States, with significant numbers of homicides involving firearms, including indiscriminate shootings in public spaces. This paper investigates the largely …


VPC: Violence Policy Center · 31 October 2023 English

Soon after the shooting, the Board of Education (the “Board”) of the Oxford Community Schools District (“OCS” or the “District”) learned that before the shooting, several OHS employees had identified …


Heritage Foundation · 3 March 2023 English

In cases in which the possessor of a crime gun can be successfully identified, that possessor is rarely the original lawful possessor of the firearm, based upon the record at …


IADB: Inter-American Development Bank · 17 June 2024 English

This is a correlation between overconfidence and high levels of gun acceptance and carrying. Attitudes towards firearms differ across cultures and regions. Personal behavioral biases like overconfidence can have significant …


Cato Institute · 6 September 2023 English

There are 1.2 guns for every person in the United States, and the total number of firearms in circulation is estimated to be over 393 million. Gun violence is the …


VPC: Violence Policy Center · 2 October 2023 English

One study found the underestimation of gun violence in the SRS was potentially larger than previously thought.4 Additionally, for a variety of reasons, the number of homicides reported to the …