Tag Archives: crime

03.17.00
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Community firearms and community fear (2000)

TITLE: Community firearms & community fear (2000)
SOURCE: Epidemiology, 11(6), pp. 709-714.
AUTHOR: Miller M, Azrael D, Hemenway D.
LINK: https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/Abstract.aspx?id=162691

FINDINGS:  By a margin of more than 3:1, citizens feel less safe, not safer, when others in their community acquire guns. Of 2,500 random respondents, just 14% reported they would feel more safe with more guns in their neighborhoods.

09.23.95
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Firearms and community feelings of safety (1995)

TITLE: Firearms & community feelings of safety (1995)
SOURCE: The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (JCLC), 86(1), pp. 121-132.
AUTHOR(S): David Hemenway, Sara J. Solnick and Deborah R. Azrael
LINK: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1144002?uid=3739864&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101681840143

FINDINGS:  By a margin of more than 3:1, citizens feel less safe, not safer, as others in their community acquire guns