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Commentary

Sep 23, 2024

Will Charging the Parents of School Shooters Help Prevent School Shootings?

Implementing child-access prevention laws effectively reduces youth gun violence and should be a priority for policymakers to prevent future tragedies. Holding parents culpable could deter some gun violence if it leads more parents to rethink giving their children unsupervised access to firearms.
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Sep 18, 2024

Teachers' Experiences with School Violence and Lockdown Drills: Findings from a 2023 American Teacher Panel Survey

To better understand what U.S. public school teachers think about school safety in general and active shooter drills in particular, RAND researchers administered a survey to a randomly selected sample of 1,020 kindergarten through grade 12 teachers.
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Aug 12, 2024

Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Effects of State Firearm Laws

Little is known about how the effects of gun policies on firearm-related harms and benefits differ across racial and ethnic groups. Establishing evidence on whether such effects exist requires better data infrastructure and more-rigorous research.
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Aug 12, 2024

Do State Firearm Laws Affect Racial and Ethnic Groups Differently?

Despite growing evidence that some gun laws may reduce firearm deaths and injuries, we know very little about whether these laws have different effects on people of different racial and ethnic groups.
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Aug 6, 2024

The National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research: Five Years of Accomplishments

Just five years ago, little scientific evidence existed on the effects of gun laws in the United States. Since 2019, the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research has allocated more than $24 million to fund research projects on gun violence prevention, resulting in a windfall of new scientific results, with more to come.
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Jul 18, 2024

Advance Detection and Reporting Are Key to Preventing Attacks

Shootings, bombings, and the like are most commonly prevented when members of the public report their suspicions. What kinds of warning signs should we all be on the lookout for in the weeks and months ahead?
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Jul 16, 2024

The Science of Gun Policy: A Critical Synthesis of Research Evidence on the Effects of Gun Policies in the United States, Fourth Edition

This report, now in its fourth edition, synthesizes the available scientific evidence for the effects of various firearm policies on firearm deaths, violent crime, the gun industry, defensive gun use, and other outcomes.
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Gun Policy in America

The RAND Gun Policy in America research initiative created policy analysis tools and research syntheses, grounded in scientific evidence, aimed at clarifying the effects of current and proposed gun policies.
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May 2, 2024

Geographic and Demographic Differences in the Proportion of Individuals Living in Households With a Firearm, 1990-2018

In this survey study, estimates of the proportion of individuals living in households with a firearm (HFR) modeled from household survey responses reveal large state and demographic differences.
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Apr 22, 2024

Methodological Challenges for Research on Racial Bias in Police Shootings

The authors of this report discuss methodological and data challenges for studying racial bias in police shootings in the United States and suggest future directions for research to address these issues.
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Apr 2, 2024

Online Tool Allows State-by-State Analysis of Firearm Death Rates over 40-Year Period

Firearm homicides have risen faster relative to the overall national trend in states such as Wisconsin, Delaware, and Minnesota, while firearm suicides have risen faster in Alaska, North Dakota, and Montana. A new tool allows users to examine state-level firearm death rates over the past four decades.
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Apr 2, 2024

Visualizing Firearm Mortality and Law Effects: An Interactive Web-Based Tool, Second Edition

This tool provides users with information about the distribution of firearm deaths across states and demographic subgroups. Users can explore how those deaths might be affected by the implementation of a set of commonly enacted state firearm laws.

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