Gun violence is related to substantial morbidity and mortality with surrounding discussions framed and shaped by the media. This study's objective was to explore national news media's reporting of gun violence around a mass shooting. National news pieces were coded according to categories of gun violence, media frames, entities held responsible, responses, and reporting of the public heath appr...

Stereotypes, expectations, and emotions influence an observer's ability to detect and categorize objects as guns. In light of recent work in action-perception interactions, however, there is another unexplored factor that may be critical: The action choices available to the perceiver. In five experiments, participants determined whether another person was holding a gun or a neutral object. Crit...

Countless children and youth are exposed to gun violence each year--at home, at school, in their communities, or through the media. Gun violence can leave lasting emotional scars on these children. This article reviews research regarding the psychological effects of gun violence on children and youth, and offers suggestions for how parents, school administrators, and mental health workers can m...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of gun ownership and methods of gun storage in homes of pediatric patients before and after an educational intervention. DESIGN Before and after trial. SETTING Hospital based, inner city, pediatric primary care practice. PARTICIPANTS Consecutive sample of parents of patients with appointments August to November 1994. INTERVENTION Before the intervent...

Authors’ Affi liations: 1 Genetics Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; 2 Harvard Medical School; and 3 Ludwig Center at Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, Massachusetts Corresponding Author: Karen Cichowski, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Genetics-NRB 0458C, Boston, MA 02115. Phone: 617-525-4722; Fax: 617-525-5801; E-mail: kcichowski@r...

Title of Thesis: GUN ACCESS AND FEMICIDE: A DIFFERENTIAL IMPACT OF FIREARMS ON INTIMATE KILLINGS Amanda Brown Cross, Master of Arts, 2005 Thesis directed by: Professor Gary LaFree Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies of intimate partner homicide have repeatedly suggested that gun accessibility increases the risk that a confrontation between intimates will end in the death of o...

A single-stage, sensor less, coil gun was designed to demonstrate the capability to accelerate a ferromagnetic projectile to high velocity. This paper summarize all important steps during coil gun design, such as physical laws of the coil gun, preliminary calculations, the testing device and final product. The electromagnetic FEA model of the capacitor-driven inductance coil gun was constructed...

OBJECTIVE To describe gun shows and assess the impact of increased regulation on characteristics linked to their importance as sources of guns used in crime. DESIGN Cross-sectional, observational. SUBJECTS Data were collected at a structured sample of 28 gun shows in California, which regulates these events and prohibits undocumented private party gun sales; and in Arizona, Nevada, Texas an...