The Legal Community Against Violence’s new publication, Guns in Public Places, examines how dramatic changes in state laws have significantly expanded the number of people who may carry concealed...
Research Archive: Loaded Guns in Public
June, 16th 2001
"Of the 395,366 firearms-related deaths reported in the United States between 1997...and 2009...about one-third are thought to have involved alcohol." Further, people who...
A Violence Policy Center study found that since May 2007, 300 people, including 11 law enforcement officers, have been killed by people legally allowed to carry loaded guns in public.
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This study published in the American Journal of Public Health showed that the risk of an employee being murdered in a workplace that allowed guns was nearly seven times greater than in a workplace...
May 12, 2010
Washington, D.C. - A majority of Americans oppose people carrying loaded guns openly in public. More feel unsafe than feel safer - and a third feel much less safe with that...
(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Press Release).
PHILADELPHIA – In a first-of its-kind study, epidemiologists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that,...
Regression to the Mean, Murder Rates, and Shall-Issue Laws
Patricia Grambsch
The relationship between state murder rates and the liberalization of conditions under which a citizen...
The pro-gun lobby and the gun industry have claimed that legalizing the carrying of hidden, loaded guns will mean a decrease in violent crime and an increase in public safety. Those claims aren't...
