Exploring Gun Ownership as a Social Identity to Understanding the Perceived Media Influence of the Virginia Tech News Coverage on Attitudes toward Gun Control Policy

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Atwell Seate ◽  
Elizabeth L. Cohen ◽  
Yuki Fujioka ◽  
Cynthia Hoffner
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Virginia Tech ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Gun Ownership

Clinging to Guns and Religion? A Research Note Testing the Role of Protestantism in Shaping Gun Identity in the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Abigail Vegter ◽  
Kevin R. den Dulk
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Gun Ownership ◽  
Gun Policy

Abstract How does social identity shape Protestant attitudes about guns in the United States? Numerous studies show that religion shapes attitudes about guns, but the role of Protestantism in forming those attitudes is undertheorized and undertested. We draw from the extensive literature on religion-as-identity and the burgeoning literature of gun-ownership-as-identity to test the theory about the role of Protestant religion in cultivating a gun identity. We argue that for many Protestants, gun ownership has taken on the characteristics of a distinctive social identity, but that there are clear differences between different types of Protestants—notably, evangelicals and mainliners—that render the expansive category of “Protestant” largely irrelevant as an explanatory variable. While that finding might seem straightforward to scholars of religion and politics, the broad categorical approach—that is, treating “Protestant” as explanatory—has proven surprisingly durable in studies of gun ownership and attitudes about gun control. The analysis uses a recent Pew survey with batteries of questions about gun identity, gun policy, and religion. While this research note does not fully test why this relationship between Protestantism and gun identity exists, we do show that the relationship not only exists but also affects gun policy attitudes.

The Political Weaponization of Gun Owners

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-84
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Lacombe
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
The Political ◽  
Gun Ownership ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
Newspaper Editors ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
Over Time

This chapter analyzes the editorials (1930–2008) from the National Rifle Association's (NRA) American Rifleman magazine, along with gun-related letters to the editor of four major newspapers covering that same period, to document how the NRA created a distinct social identity built around gun ownership, charting the NRA's assiduous, long-term efforts — through not just its membership communications but also its popular firearms programs — to cultivate such an identity and to connect it to politics. The chapter uses the American Rifleman as a measure of the organization's views and priorities and treat pro-gun letters to newspaper editors as a measure of the attitudes and views of NRA supporters. It also utilizes the letters from gun owners to measure their feelings about guns over time. The chapter demonstrates how the NRA has used this identity to mobilize its supporters into politics by portraying gun owners' ways of life as under threat from gun control proposals and imploring its members to take action in defense of it.

How gun control policies influence consumers’ service businesses evaluations

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Gregory Cabano ◽  
Amin Attari ◽  
Elizabeth A. Minton
Keyword(s):  
Value Congruence ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Brand Strategy ◽  
Control Policies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Patronage Behavior ◽  
Critical Insight ◽  
Service Businesses

Purpose Given the growing prevalence of gun control policies in service settings, this study aims to investigate how the adoption of a gun control policy by a service businesses influences consumers’ evaluations of the service businesses. Design/methodology/approach Three experiments were conducted to examine how the adoption of a gun control policy by a service businesses influences consumers’ brand favorability of that service businesses and how value congruence (i.e. the alignment between a consumer’s own personal values and perceptions of the brand’s values) is the underlying mechanism. Findings This study documents several major findings. First, the authors find that the adoption of a gun control policy by a service businesses increases consumers’ brand favorability. Second, the authors highlight a boundary condition to this effect, such that a gun control policy actually decreases consumers’ brand favorability for people high (vs low) in support for gun rights. Third, the authors show that value congruence is the psychological process underlying these effects. Fourth, the authors generalize the focal effects to a real-world brand and demonstrate that the adoption of a gun control policy increases brand favorability for consumers low (vs high) in patronage behavior of the brand. Finally, the authors find that a pioneer brand strategy in the adoption of a gun control policy significantly increases brand favorability, whereas a follower brand strategy in the adoption of such a policy is less effective. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this research is the first to provide critical insight to service businesseses as to how their position regarding guns influences consumers’ evaluations of the service businesses.

A cross-sectional examination of US gun ownership and support for gun control measures: Sociodemographic, geographic, and political associations explored

2019 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 179-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emeka Oraka ◽  
Sharanya Thummalapally ◽  
Lynne Anderson ◽  
Tiffany Burgess ◽  
Felicia Seibert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gun Control ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Gun Ownership ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Political Associations

State-Level Point-of-Sale Tobacco News Coverage and Policy Progression Over a 2-Year Period

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison E. Myers ◽  
Brian G. Southwell ◽  
Kurt M. Ribisl ◽  
Sarah Moreland-Russell ◽  
J. Michael Bowling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tobacco Control ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Empirical Relationship ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
State Level ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Advocacy ◽  
Point Of Sale ◽  
Source Use

Background. Mass media content may play an important role in policy change. However, the empirical relationship between media advocacy efforts and tobacco control policy success has rarely been studied. We examined the extent to which newspaper content characteristics (volume, slant, frame, source, use of evidence, and degree of localization) that have been identified as important in past descriptive studies were associated with policy progression over a 2-year period in the context of point-of-sale (POS) tobacco control. Method. We used regression analyses to test the relationships between newspaper content and policy progression from 2012 to 2014. The dependent variable was the level of implementation of state-level POS tobacco control policies at Time 2. Independent variables were newspaper article characteristics (volume, slant, frame, source, use of evidence, and degree of localization) and were collected via content analysis of the articles. State-level policy environment contextual variables were examined as confounders. Results. Positive, significant bivariate relationships exist between characteristics of news content (e.g., high overall volume, public health source present, local quote and local angle present, and pro–tobacco control slant present) and Time 2 POS score. However, in a multivariate model controlling for other factors, significant relationships did not hold. Discussion. Newspaper coverage can be a marker of POS policy progression. Whether media can influence policy implementation remains an important question. Future work should continue to tease out and confirm the unique characteristics of media content that are most associated with subsequent policy progression, in order to inform media advocacy efforts.

I Am the NRA: An Analysis of a National Random Sample of Gun Owners

1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas S. Weil ◽  
David Hemenway
Keyword(s):  
Confidence Interval ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Gun Ownership ◽  
National Rifle Association ◽  
Waiting Period

Data from a national random sample of gun owners (N = 605) were used to determine whether members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) are a representative sample of all gun owners and how well the NRA's lobbying positions on gun control reflect the views of its membership and of nonmember gun owners. No obvious demographic distinctions were identified between member and nonmember gun owners, but handgun owners (odds ratio [OR], 1.69; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.19to 2.39) and individuals who owned six or more guns as opposed to just one gun (OR, 1.95; 95% C1, 1.22 to 3.10) were more likely to belong to the NRA. Nonmembers were more supportive of specific proposals to regulate gun ownership (OR, 1.82; 95% C1, 1.14 to 2.91), but a majority of both member and nonmember gun owners favored a waiting period for the purcbase of a handgun (77% and 89%, respectively) and mandatory registration of handguns (59% and 75%).

Default signals further slide for Puerto Rico in 2016

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Puerto Rican Diaspora

Significance The island's government and public agencies hold 72 billion dollars of debt obligations, but migration to the mainland United States, political unwillingness to cut spending and constitutional difficulties have triggered a severe crisis. Federal US and Puerto Rican lawmakers are concerned that austerity-driven cuts to public services would only exacerbate the problems of the commonwealth. Impacts The Puerto Rican diaspora in Florida may punish Republicans at the ballot box in the event of federal inaction. Anti-gun-control policy 'riders' may scupper congressional efforts to aid Puerto Rico in March. Relief for Puerto Rico may become a vote-winning issue for Democratic presidential candidates in the party primaries.

scholarly journals Racism, Gun Ownership and Gun Control: Biased Attitudes in US Whites May Influence Policy Decisions

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. e77552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry O’Brien ◽  
Walter Forrest ◽  
Dermot Lynott ◽  
Michael Daly
Keyword(s):  
Gun Control ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Gun Ownership

From Newspaper to Parliament and Back? A Study of Media Attention as Source for and Result of the Dutch Question Hour

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Van Aelst ◽  
Rosa van Santen ◽  
Lotte Melenhorst ◽  
Luzia Helfer
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Media Influence ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
News Values ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Political Statement ◽  
The Media

AbstractThis study on the role of media attention for the Dutch question hour answers three questions: to what extent is media attention a source of inspiration for oral parliamentary questions? What explains the newsworthiness of these questions? And what explains the extent of media coverage for the questions posed during the question hour? To address this, we present a content analysis of oral parliamentary questions and related press coverage in five recent years. The results show first that oral questions are usually based on media attention for a topic. Concerns about media influence should however be nuanced: it is not necessarily the coverage itself, but also regularly a political statement that is the actual source of a parliamentary question. The media are thus an important “channel” for the interaction between politicians. Second, our analysis shows that oral questions do not receive media attention naturally. Several news values help to explain the amount of news coverage that questions receive. “Surfing the wave” of news attention for a topic in the days previous to the question hour seems to be the best way to generate media attention.

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