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Where are all the guns? Modeling firearm ownership in the United States

Firearm possession rates across the United States are important for policy makers and the public alike, yet reliable data are notoriously hard to come by. In this issue of Patterns, Barak-Ventura et al. develop a model to estimate state-level firearm ownership and analyze the causal relationships am...

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Autor principal: Wahl, Jonas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9403373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36033585
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2022.100571
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Sumario:Firearm possession rates across the United States are important for policy makers and the public alike, yet reliable data are notoriously hard to come by. In this issue of Patterns, Barak-Ventura et al. develop a model to estimate state-level firearm ownership and analyze the causal relationships among firearm possession, the occurrence of mass shootings, and media coverage.