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If lawful firearm owners cause most gun deaths, what can we do?
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Firearms
Public health
Crime prevention
Violence prevention
Suicide
Law
Law enforcement
Homicide
Gun control
Family violence
armed violence
Description
In the frustrating struggle to identify gun killers in advance, we could have been looking in the wrong place. By accepting the common mantra that law-abiding, licensed firearm owners are not the problem, many have chased popular fears such as mental illness and violent video games.
Research now shows that far more frequently, perpetrators share one common thread. In mass shootings, in gun homicide and particularly in much more common gun deaths, the killer is frequently, until that moment, a law-abiding firearm owner pulling the trigger on a lawfully held gun.
Read the full article on The Conversation.
Publication Details
Copyright:
The Conversation Media Group 2015
Post date:
15 Nov 2016