Huffington Post
Kalesan's study defined “social gun culture” as a phenomenon in which friends or family would think less of you if you didn’t own a gun, and if your social life with friends and family involved guns. Any survey participant who answered “yes” to any of these statements was categorized as being part of social gun culture.
Figuring out the dynamics at play in social gun culture, according to Kalesan, will be key to sparking social change about the attitudes and practices that inform gun ownership in the first place. She said educating Americans about the health dangers of having a firearm in their homes will change the way people feel about gun ownership, which in turn could drive laws that make guns more difficult to obtain.
"A public health approach, much like the anti-tobacco effort, is necessary, first to facilitate a social change and then political will to form effective policies,” Kalesan told HuffPost. "We also need research to understand the public health consequences in different communities and to identify effective social interventions in different populations."
For instance, past research has found a link between the rate of household gun ownership and elevated rates of firearm-suicide, despite the fact that gun owners do not have more mental health problems than non-gun owners, nor are they more prone to suicide than non-gun owners. Other studies have found that gun ownership leads to more violent crime in general, as guns tend fall into the wrong hands when stolen or sold on secondary markets.
Figuring out the dynamics at play in social gun culture, according to Kalesan, will be key to sparking social change about the attitudes and practices that inform gun ownership in the first place. She said educating Americans about the health dangers of having a firearm in their homes will change the way people feel about gun ownership, which in turn could drive laws that make guns more difficult to obtain.
ReplyDeleteWell, at least she isn't trying to hide the fact that she's an enemy of the people of this nation.
Nobody wants to take away your guns. They just want to brainwash you into giving them up.
ReplyDeleteOf course, perhaps we shouldn't mention the recent survey in which the majority recently ranked gun rights as more important than gun control laws. And the constant expansion of gun rights at the state level while violent crime and homicide continue to decline.
ReplyDeleteAnd trying to paint a portrait of gun owners being old white guys when the gun culture is becoming more diversified certainly isn't going to help. Keep in mind that the expansion of rights and the diversification have been taking place while the gun control lobby has been, in essence doing exactly what the author of this study is hoping to do with her study.
If it hasn't helped before, it likely wont help this time either. This seems to be a recurring theme in the gun control lobby. Even if the law they wants does get passed, such as the federal assault weapon ban, and it doesn't have the promised effect, not only will they fight tooth and nail to keep it going. Like they unsuccessfully did in 2004, they will try to get it passed again, even with the first ban's history of ineffectiveness.
"even with the first ban's history of ineffectiveness"
ReplyDeleteDo you have proof of this ineffectiveness?
"Do you have proof of this ineffectiveness?"
Delete"The Task Force on Community Preventive Services, an independent, non-federal task force, examined an assortment of firearms laws, including the AWB, and found "insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws reviewed for preventing violence."[24] A 2004 critical review of firearms research by a National Research Councilcommittee said that an academic study of the assault weapon ban "did not reveal any clear impacts on gun violence outcomes." The committee noted that the study's authors said the guns were used criminally with relative rarity before the ban and that its maximum potential effect on gun violence outcomes would be very small."
"In 2004, a research report submitted to the United States Department of Justice and the National Institute of Justice found that should the ban be renewed, its effects on gun violence would likely be small, and perhaps too small for reliable measurement, because rifles in general, including rifles referred to as "assault rifles" or "assault weapons", are rarely used in gun crimes.[26] That study by Christopher S. Koper, Daniel J. Woods, and Jeffrey A. Roth of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania found no statistically significant evidence that either the assault weapons ban or the ban on magazines holding more than 10 rounds had reduced gun murders."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban#Studies_on_effects_of_the_legislation
Do you have any proof of the effectiveness of the federal ban? Or perhaps the effectiveness of any of the state level bans?
All I've been hearing recently about state level bans is that they are being obeyed at about the same frequency as laws against pot, which isn't much. In fact someone had to go to court to get the officials of New York to release the data that showed the dismal levels of those who registered their firearms.
"insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness"
DeleteThanks for proving my point and at the same time disproving your point.
Well Anon, if you can't determine the effectiveness of a law with some sort of data,then why should the law remain in force? Don't you believe the law would have been extended if they had been able to show some data proving some reduction in crime using these weapons?
DeleteAs I showed in my later comment, homicides with rifles was 25% lower ten years after the ban expired.
No, because it's a political based decision, not factually based.
Delete"Do you have proof of this ineffectiveness?"
ReplyDeleteHere's some more data for you Anon. Lets look at the number of homicides committed with a rifle for the years after the assault weapon ban expired. Maybe after the ban expired, the numbers increased, though the FBI doesn't differentiate between rifles and assault weapons,
2004 398
2005 445
2006 438
2007 453
2008 380
2009 351
2010 367
2011 332
2012 298
2013 285
Homicides committed with a rifle seem to be lower since the ban expired. Imagine that....
Another example of your dishonesty. Those numbers had nothing to do with the AWB being renewed, or not. Why do gun loons have to lie?
DeleteOther studies have found that gun ownership leads to more violent crime in general...
ReplyDeleteThis is what I'm talking about. Here they said "in general" but when we click on the link, we find out the study was for "gun-related violence"- not at all "in general". It's amazing how often gun controllers want to conflate these metrics, and it's no surprise why.