https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc The U.S. is host to an exceptional amount of gun violence relative to other countries. From 1998 to 2018, the rate of gun homicides has remained fairly high, increasing only from 4.21 to 4.42 per 100,000 (a). The increase in mass shootings has been more dramatic, and in 2021 there were 692 mass shootings, a 13% increase from the prior year (b). These rates are certainly cause for concern, but it's also important not to lose sight of individual shootings. Each event--each shooting--pulses like a shockwave of national trauma, and in its wake, we struggle to process and make sense of what happened. The Equity and Justice Committee created this Padlet as an effort to begin pulling together media and social scientific findings on guns and gun violence. At present, this curated collection of content is woefully incomplete, but our hope is that everyone in our department will contribute posts of their own in order to fill in the gaps. All posts are welcome, from published research to personal commentary. Ideally, this Padlet will help people to more fully grasp the problem of gun violence and may even spur research on the topic. Like any bulletin board, your posts can go anywhere you like. We've included arrows to suggest a possible order, and we've grouped some posts by color to designate related areas of research. | (a) CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/index.html) (b) Gun Violence Archive (https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls) en-us 2022-06-03 15:33:01 UTC 2025-10-10 15:50:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f534.png landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2210336550 "Federal data suggests that gun sales have risen in recent years, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic. In 2020, the number of monthly federal background checks for gun purchases was consistently at least 20% higher than in the same month in 2019, according to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System." 

~ Pew Research Center, 2021 (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/09/13/key-facts-about-americans-and-guns/)]]> 2022-06-03 15:51:22 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2210336550 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2210339927 About four-in-ten gun owners say there is always a loaded gun within easy reach when they're at home

Source: Pew Research Center]]> 2022-06-03 15:55:23 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2210339927 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2210356569 "Rarely is attention given to the young voices belonging to those who carry high-powered semiautomatic handguns. In "Language of the Gun," Bernard E. Harcourt recounts in-depth interviews with youths detained at an all-male correctional facility in the Arizona desert, exploring how they talk about guns and what meanings they ascribe to them in a broader attempt to understand some of the assumptions implicit in current handgun policies."]]> 2022-06-03 16:14:28 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2210356569 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2210525808 How carrying a concealed weapon reinforces and challenges gender norms and changes how women move through and experience public spaces.]]> 2022-06-03 19:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2210525808 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2210531051 "Carlson argues that guns are taken up to address practical problems of policing and protection-in effect to manage social insecurities and suspicions surrounding state disinvestment and the efficacy of state institutions, especially law enforcement. In this context, guns carrying becomes a means of practicing good citizenship by producing social order amidst disorder. "]]> 2022-06-03 20:10:08 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2210531051 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2212360622 Over 80% of mass shooters were in a noticeable crisis prior to their shooting]]> 2022-06-06 15:35:54 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2212360622 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2212368010 The motivations of mass shooters have varied over time.]]> 2022-06-06 15:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2212368010 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2212378349 The communication of intent to do harm is known as leakage. In this study, nearly half of the perpetrators of mass shootings leaked their plans. Leakage was associated with receiving counseling and suicidality. Leakage is a critical moment for mental health intervention to prevent gun violence. ]]> 2022-06-06 15:51:33 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2212378349 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2212391147 Students who watched active shooter preparedness videos felt more afraid that a shooting would occur on campus, in addition to feeling more prepared to respond. The training video increased feelings of preparedness, but also increased feelings of fear among female students. The implications of active shooter training on student mental health and school culture are discussed.]]> 2022-06-06 16:02:14 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2212391147 jensoncastillo8 https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2212745957 White Supremacist sits with Church members and then shoots them as they closed their eyes for prayer.]]> 2022-06-06 23:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2212745957 jensoncastillo8 https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2212747506 Over 95% of mass shooting perpetrators are male, over 54% of them are white.]]> 2022-06-06 23:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2212747506 jensoncastillo8 https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2212750802 13 mass shootings over the weekend, 18 fatalities, 72 injured and there is still a debate over gun control...]]> 2022-06-06 23:13:36 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2212750802 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2215013847 2022-06-08 13:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2215013847 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2215043788 When RAND investigators rated the strength of evidence found for the effect of each of the these policies on various outcomes, they concluded that there is not even one single effect for which the evidence was considered to be "strong." The strongest evidence they found was labeled "supportive" (see more here: https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-012420-105117)]]> 2022-06-08 14:07:22 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2215043788 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2215085745 "Some models [of reducing gun violence] developed through the community policing reform movement may be relevant because they are generally acknowledged to have been useful in reducing violence against women and domestic violence and in responding to children exposed to violence."]]> 2022-06-08 14:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2215085745 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2215217210 "[P]olice chiefs attached to their guns different gendered and racial meanings as they constructed themselves as agents of policing. Regarding [urban] gun violence..police chiefs constructed themselves as Warriors pitted against black and brown gang-bangers, drug dealers, and super predators. [Regarding] rural and suburban contexts, police chiefs presented themselves as Guardians, reframing gun violence as terrorism and emphasizing their own police duties as first-responders."]]> 2022-06-08 16:39:08 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2215217210 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2215223587 "[Blattman] decided to run a big randomized controlled trial with 999 of the most dangerous men in Monrovia, recruited on the street. The results were so promising that they’ve already inspired a sister program in a very different city: Chicago."]]> 2022-06-08 16:44:41 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2215223587 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2215400687 Wintemute, Garen J. 2015. "The Epidemiology of Firearm Violence in the Twenty-First Century United States." Annual Review of Public Health. 36:5-19. (https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031914-122535)]]> 2022-06-08 19:52:59 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2215400687 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2215402211 1. The overall fatality rate from firearm violence has not changed in more than a decade.
2. Suicide is the most common form of fatal firearm violence and is increasing.
3. Homicide risk is concentrated to a remarkable degree among Black males through much of the life span.
4. Suicide risk is highest among White males beginning in adolescence. They also account for most fatalities from firearm violence and have increasing mortality rates.]]> 2022-06-08 19:55:04 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2215402211 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2215412553 "The denied innocence and criminalization of Black bodies is commonplace and helps us understand the silence from the media, from political leaders, and from gun rights activist groups."]]> 2022-06-08 20:10:06 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2215412553 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2217507334 2022-06-10 13:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2217507334 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2217509660 2022-06-10 13:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2217509660 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2217516779 "Masculinity is associated with homophobia, sexism, misogyny, male supremacist ideals, and violence, and so men turn to those things in order to demonstrate their membership in the group."]]> 2022-06-10 13:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2217516779 landrist https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2230016319 "...This article examines the cases of 10 rampage school shooters in an effort to find out not only how they are alike, but also how they differ. Based on available information, these youths are categorized into three types: traumatized, psychotic, and psychopathic." Langman, Peter. 2008. “Rampage School Shooters: A Typology.” Aggression and Violent Behavior. 14:79-86. ( https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Langman/publication/222237299_Rampage_school_shooters_A_typology/links/59db6f060f7e9b2f587fedcf/Rampage-school-shooters-A-typology.pdf)]]> 2022-06-24 19:16:53 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2230016319 https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2247105606 2022-07-20 20:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/landrist/xb0g120p0uguqrnc/wish/2247105606