Tag: Guns
How to keep students safe in school: 5 essential reads on...
Alvin Buyinza, The Conversation
School shootings in the U.S. are at an all-time high. So far in 2021 there...
Hollywood’s love of guns increases the risk of shootings – both...
Brad Bushman, The Ohio State University and Dan Romer, University of Pennsylvania
In what appears to be a tragic...
More guns, pandemic stress and a police legitimacy crisis created perfect...
Justin Nix, University of Nebraska Omaha
Homicides in the U.S. spiked by almost 30% in 2020.
New York defines illegal firearms use as a ‘public nuisance’ in...
Timothy D. Lytton, Georgia State University
Could calling the illegal use of firearms a “public nuisance” bring an end...
What are ‘ghost guns,’ a target of Biden’s anti-crime effort?
Garen Wintemute, University of California, Davis
It’s not expensive or difficult to produce large numbers of untraceable firearms in...
Why Americans are buying more guns than ever
Aimee Huff, Oregon State University and Michelle Barnhart, Oregon State University
Americans have been on a record gun-buying spree in recent months.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic...
Firearm-makers may finally decide it’s in their interest to help reduce...
Timothy D. Lytton, Georgia State University
Mass shootings have become a routine occurrence in America.
Gun-makers have long refused to take responsibility for their role in...
World’s deadliest inventor: Mikhail Kalashnikov and his AK-47
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
What is the deadliest weapon of the 20th century?
Perhaps you think first of the atomic bomb, estimated to have killed as...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
