The Rutgers New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center has gathered data to determine how common gun ownership has become in New Jersey and how gun owners store and use their weapons.
Tag: Gun Ownership
Gun ownership and homicide in the U.S.: a stronger correlation
In 2017, there were nearly 40,000 gun-related deaths in the United States, including homicides and suicides.
Survey measures whites’, Blacks’ views on American identity, guns, political violence
Finds considerable disagreement on the use of violence in certain settings
Study: How crime fears, cultural anxiety, and gender shape gun ownership
UAB’s Tara Warner explores why some individuals are more likely to own guns than others.
FSU research: Fear not a factor in gun ownership
Are gun owners more or less afraid than people who do not own guns? A new study from researchers at Florida State University and the University of Arizona hopes to add some empirical data to the conversation after finding that gun owners tend to report less fear than non-gun owners. The study, led by sociology doctoral student Benjamin Dowd-Arrow, used the Chapman University Survey of American Fears to examine both the types and the amount of fear that gun owners had in comparison to non-gun owners.