Reacting to the Improbable: Handgun Carrying Permit Application Rates in the Wake of High-Profile Mass Shootings

America can be a violent place. This country has a diverse population with a plethora of social problems including a significant level of violence that occurs in families, schools, churches, and other elements of society. Violence results in significant costs to family relationships, crime, health care, social services, education, race, religion and public policy. There have been many high-profile cases of violence especially mass shootings. On June 17, 2015 Dylan Roof, a young white male, fatally wounded 9 people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. What causes such violent acts? Are males more violent than females? What can be done to address the problem of violence? Violence often leads to more violence. Can a violent act, such as the Charleston shooting result in a transformative experience and outcome where the response offers lessons for a vision for nonviolence?

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Transforming Violence to Nonviolence

Violent Extremism ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7119-3.ch015 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 254-279

Author(s):

Wayne A. Jones

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

South Carolina ◽

Social Services ◽

Family Relationships ◽

White Male ◽

Diverse Population ◽

Transformative Experience ◽

Mass Shootings ◽

High Profile ◽

Violent Acts

America can be a violent place. This country has a diverse population with a plethora of social problems including a significant level of violence that occurs in families, schools, churches, and other elements of society. Violence results in significant costs to family relationships, crime, health care, social services, education, race, religion and public policy. There have been many high-profile cases of violence especially mass shootings. On June 17, 2015 Dylan Roof, a young white male, fatally wounded 9 people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. What causes such violent acts? Are males more violent than females? What can be done to address the problem of violence? Violence often leads to more violence. Can a violent act, such as the Charleston shooting result in a transformative experience and outcome where the response offers lessons for a vision for nonviolence?

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“What We Need Is Bullet Control”

Handbook of Research on Mass Shootings and Multiple Victim Violence ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-0113-9.ch024 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 432-446

Author(s):

Selina E. M. Kerr

Keyword(s):

Public Support ◽

The United States ◽

The Body ◽

Political Climate ◽

Mass Shootings ◽

Background Checks ◽

High Profile ◽

Policy Debates ◽

Mass Shooting ◽

Policy Proposals

Following high-profile mass shootings in the United States, there are policy debates about gun regulation; yet, for the most part, these stall. This chapter suggests that an alternative way to frame this issue would be through “bullet control,” centering on the ammunition used. In order to inflict the greatest degree of damage possible, mass shooters tend to carry large quantities of bullets and large-capacity magazines with them. Harm-inducing bullets, such as hollow-points which penetrate certain parts of the body, have been used in previous mass shootings. Policy proposals could center on these areas to reduce harm in a mass shooting. Another regulation could focus on mandating background checks for ammunition. Interviews were conducted with six participants with knowledge of gun policies and/or gun violence prevention advocacy. Findings from interviews indicate support for these policy proposals. Discussed are ways to increase public support for these proposals via framing strategies. Also deliberated is whether the current political climate is conducive to pass legislation.

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Violence

10.1093/oso/9780190630430.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Gianni Pirelli

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Psychiatric Disorders ◽

Empirical Research ◽

School Shootings ◽

Mass Shootings ◽

High Profile ◽

General Overview ◽

The Relationship

In this chapter, the authors address four areas particularly relevant to understanding important topics related to gun-involved violence. First, they provide a general overview of violence, setting forth commonly recognized definitions and types, psychological components and theories, and psychiatric disorders most closely associated with violence. Second, they address firearm-related violence and crime with respect to national and state-based statistics as well as relevant theories and empirical research in this domain. Third, they discuss various high-profile shootings, including an overview of some of the more infamous mass shootings in the modern-day United States, followed by theories and research relevant to mass shootings (including school shootings). The authors also focus on the relationship between mental illness and firearm-related violence.

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High-Profile Mass Shootings

Critical Mass ◽

10.4324/9781003033134-4 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 54-67

Author(s):

Dinur Blum ◽

Christian G. Jaworski

Keyword(s):

Mass Shootings ◽

High Profile

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Assessing the contagiousness of mass shootings with nonparametric Hawkes processes

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0248437 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. e0248437

Author(s):

Peter Boyd ◽

James Molyneux

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Point Process ◽

News Media ◽

The United States ◽

Gun Violence ◽

Process Models ◽

Mass Shootings ◽

Hawkes Processes ◽

High Profile ◽

Point Process Models

Gun violence and mass shootings are high-profile epidemiological issues facing the United States with questions regarding their contagiousness gaining prevalence in news media. Through the use of nonparametric Hawkes processes, we examine the evidence for the existence of contagiousness within a catalog of mass shootings and highlight the broader benefits of using such nonparametric point process models in modeling the occurrence of such events.

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Computers and diffraction analysis

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100152197 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 44-45

Author(s):

J. A. Eades

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

High Resolution ◽

Electron Diffraction ◽

Diffraction Analysis ◽

Electron Diffraction Analysis ◽

Image Simulation ◽

Correct Interpretation ◽

High Profile ◽

High Resolution Images ◽

Image Simulations

For well over two decades computers have played an important role in electron microscopy; they now pervade the whole field - as indeed they do in so many other aspects of our lives. The initial use of computers was mainly for large (as it seemed then) off-line calculations for image simulations; for example, of dislocation images.Image simulation has continued to be one of the most notable uses of computers particularly since it is essential to the correct interpretation of high resolution images. In microanalysis, too, the computer has had a rather high profile. In this case because it has been a necessary part of the equipment delivered by manufacturers. By contrast the use of computers for electron diffraction analysis has been slow to prominence. This is not to say that there has been no activity, quite the contrary; however it has not had such a great impact on the field.

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