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Jan 26, 2023 · By The New York Times. Published Jan. 26, 2023 Updated Jan. 26, 2023. As the number of mass shootings in America continues to rise, gun control — a term used to describe a wide range of ...
- Mass Shootings in The Past 40 Years
- The Effects of Gun Laws
- Beyond Gun Control
- Framing The Debate
We defined a mass shooting as a single incident in which a perpetrator with no connection to gang activity or organized crime shot and killed three or more people. This is similar to the definition Congress uses. We found there were 112 of these events between 1980 and 2020; the number of mass shootings each year has increased over time. An overwhe...
Gun laws aren’t the only factorsthat affect where and when mass shootings occur. The number of police officers per capita, a community’s population density and crime rate, and other demographic characteristics such as unemployment rates and average income can also matter. We used statistical methods to control for those factors, narrowing our analy...
Our analysis suggests that Americans who want to make mass shootings less frequent and less deadly may want to think beyond gun control legislation. Statistically, mass shootings tend to occur in large, densely populated states with higher income and education levels per capita. While these states often respond to mass shootings by passing gun cont...
Many policy options involve value judgments stemming from beliefs about the U.S. Constitution and the power of government to regulate guns. Among people who think that restricting gun access reduces mass shootings, people disagree over whether the country should prioritize the individual freedoms of gun owners or the safety and peace of mind of non...
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Jun 7, 2022 · President Biden urged Congress to act and the House is preparing to pass multiple gun control measures. But the Senate is where a compromise must be made. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is ...
May 27, 2022 · Eric Thayer/Getty Images. The nationwide gun control debate resurfaced on Tuesday, after an 18-year-old shooter entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 students and two ...
Jun 2, 2022 · Recent mass shootings have House Democrats pushing the most sweeping set of gun-control bills considered by Congress in decades. ... came after 10 hours of heated. sometimes personal debate, which ...
Jun 23, 2022 · The Senate pushed a bipartisan gun violence bill to the brink of passage Thursday as it voted to halt a Republican filibuster against the measure, clearing the way for Congress' most far-reaching ...
