Support for New Policies to Regulate Firearms — Results of Two National Surveys

Teret, Stephen P.; Webster, Daniel; Vernick, Jon S.; Smith, Tom W.; Leff, Deborah; Wintemute, Garen J.; Cook, Philip J.; Hawkins, Darnell F.; Kellermann, Arthur L.; Sorenson, Susan B.; DeFrancesco, Susan

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“…The latter initiative has been endorsed by as much as 77% of the general public and 72% of gun owners 23 and repeatedly by American President George W Bush. 24 25 These data suggest that action by individual states may produce displacement effects; federal policy reform would be preferable.…”

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Gun shows across a multistate American gun market: observational evidence of the effects of regulatory policies

Wintemute

2007

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Objective: To describe gun shows and assess the impact of increased regulation on characteristics linked to their importance as sources of guns used in crime. Design: Cross-sectional, observational. Subjects: Data were collected at a structured sample of 28 gun shows in California, which regulates these events and prohibits undocumented private party gun sales; and in Arizona, Nevada, Texas and Florida-all leading sources of California's crime guns-where these restrictions do not exist. Main outcome measures: Size of shows, measured by numbers of gun vendors and people in attendance; number and nature of guns for sale by gun vendors; measures of private party gun sales and illegal surrogate (''straw'') gun purchases. Results: Shows in comparison states were larger, but the number of attendees per gun vendor was higher in California. None of these differences was statistically significant. Armed attendees were more common in other states (median 5.7%, interquartile range (IQR) 3.9-10.0%) than in California (median 1.1%, IQR 0.5-2.2%), p = 0.0007. Thirty percent of gun vendors both in California and elsewhere were identifiable as licensed firearm retailers. There were few differences in the types or numbers of guns offered for sale; vendors elsewhere were more likely to sell assault weapons (34.9% and 13.3%, respectively; p = 0.001). Straw purchases were more common in the comparison states (rate ratio 6.6 (95% CI 0.9 to 49.1), p = 0.06). Conclusions: California's regulatory policies were associated with a decreased incidence of anonymous, undocumented gun sales and illegal straw purchases at gun shows. No significant adverse effects of these policies were observed.

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Gun shows across a multistate American gun market: observational evidence of the effects of regulatory policies

Wintemute

2007

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“…even those from gun-owning homes overwhelming support more restrictive firearm policies (Sorenson, 1999;Teret et al, 1998;Vittes, Sorenson & Gilbert, 2003).…”

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“WE'VE GOT A GUN?”: comparing reports of adolescents and their parents about household firearms

Sorenson

Cook

2007

Journal Community Psychology

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Firearms are a leading cause of mortality among adolescents, and the guns that adolescents use to harm themselves or others often come from their own homes. In this statewide, multi-language, community-based survey of 5,704 co-residing pairs of adolescents and their parents, we asked about guns in the home and compared their responses. The proportions of parents and adolescents responding affirmatively were similar: 25.7% and 26.8%, respectively, for any guns; 15.0% and 13.2%, respectively, for handguns. A paired analysis documented substantial agreement for whether there was any gun in the home and less agreement about whether there was a handgun in the home. The amount of agreement and disagreement was related to household composition and gender of the respondents. The disagreement was substantial for some groups (e.g., when boys residing in households containing a single mother and no other adults reported that there was a gun in the home, 64.8% of their mothers said that there was not a gun in the home). Implications for research and intervention are discussed. Firearms are a leading cause of mortality among adolescents, and the guns that adolescents use to

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“…This characteristic of the public health infrastructure flows directly from a core value of the federal system: state and local preference for autonomy and/or control, especially in matters closely affecting personal rights and private interests. Such concerns are deeply rooted in public health matters: consider tobacco advertising (72), firearms control (65,71), and HIV/AIDS (6,29), to name only a few. The central value of self-determination is embodied in policies and programs that prefer to "devolve" authority to smaller and more local jurisdictions-those closest to individual persons.…”

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The Public Health Infrastructure and Our Nation's Health

Baker

Potter

Rodriguez

et al. 2005

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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public health preparedness ■ Abstract Threats to Americans' health-including chronic disease, emerging infectious disease, and bioterrorism-are present and growing, and the public health system is responsible for addressing these challenges. Public health systems in the United States are built on an infrastructure of workforce, information systems, and organizational capacity; in each of these areas, however, serious deficits have been well documented. Here we draw on two 2003 Institute of Medicine reports and present evidence for current threats and the weakness of our public health infrastructure. We describe major initiatives to systematically assess, invest in, rebuild, and evaluate workforce competency, information systems, and organizational capacity through public policy making, practical initiatives, and practice-oriented research. These initiatives are based on applied science and a shared federal-state approach to public accountability. We conclude that a newly strengthened public health infrastructure must be sustained in the future through a balancing of the values inherent in the federal system.

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Support for New Policies to Regulate Firearms — Results of Two National Surveys

Abstract: Strong public support, even among gun owners, for innovative strategies to regulate firearms suggests that these proposals warrant serious consideration by policy makers.

Cited by 64 publications

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Gun shows across a multistate American gun market: observational evidence of the effects of regulatory policies

Gun shows across a multistate American gun market: observational evidence of the effects of regulatory policies

“WE'VE GOT A GUN?”: comparing reports of adolescents and their parents about household firearms

The Public Health Infrastructure and Our Nation's Health

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