Annotated Bibliography: Gun Control and Mass Shootings
Coates, M., & Pearson, M. S. (2017). Policy Spillover and Gun Migration: The Interstate Dynamics of State Gun Control Policies. Social Science Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell) , 98(2), 500–512. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12422
The journal focused on analyzing how policy spillover could negatively impact gun controls between states. States with strict gun regulatory environments may have difficulties enforcing their policies if they border states with permissive regulations. The study established that guns confiscated in states with strict gun policies were originally purchased from the ones with weaker laws.
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Blau, B. M., Gorry, D. H., & Wade, C. (2016). Guns, laws and public shootings in the United States. Applied Economics , 48(49), 4732–4746. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2016.1164821
In this study, the authors investigate the effect of state gun laws, the type of firearms, the shooting locations and the gunman’s mental health on the outcomes of public shootings. The study established that specific types of guns and high capacity magazines had a direct effect on the number of fatalities in a public shooting.
Chapman, S., Alpers, P., & Jones, M. (2016). Association between gun law reforms and intentional firearm deaths in Australia, 1979-2013. Jama , 316 (3), 291-299.
The objective of the study was to analyze the effect of the enactment of gun laws in Australia. After 13 fatal shootings in, the nation instigated a gun law in 1996 and purchased all the guns from citizens in a bid to reduce gun-related cases. Based on the statistics provided by the researchers, Australia has never witnessed any mass shooting.
Siegel, M., Ross, C. S., & King III, C. (2013). The relationship between gun ownership and firearm homicide rates in the United States, 1981–2010. American journal of public health , 103 (11), 2098-2105.
The purpose of the study was to establish the relationship between gun ownership and the rates of homicide between strangers and non-strangers. The authors utilized the data from the Supplemental Homicide Reports of the FBI for the 50 states from 1981 to 2010. The researchers employed the binomial regression model to analyze their clusters. There was no statistical correlation between the ownership of guns and the rates of homicide among strangers. On the contrary, there were higher rates of homicide between nonstrangers.
Gregory, S., Wilson, C., Park, A., & Jenkins, A. (2018). What We Can Do to Stop It. Time, 191(12), 32–35. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=128615798&site=ehost-live
The authors delve on what can be done to minimize school shootings. In their study, they provide statistical information about gun-related deaths in the US. They provide precise steps that could be taken to ensure that gun related cases in the country reduce.
Gius, M. (2015). The impact of state and federal assault weapons bans on public mass shootings. Applied Economics Letters , 22(4), 281–284. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2014.939367
In this journal, Gius delves on the effects of state bans on assault weapons on the rate of mass shootings. The author applies the Poisson effect model on the data for the period of 1982 to 2011. The study established that both state and federal assault weapon bans had a negative impact on mass shooting victims but the federal laws were more effective. The study in particular is the only one that focuses on the effects of bans on assault weapons on mass shootings.
