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Will Charging the Parents of School Shooters Help Prevent School Shootings?

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Jul 11, 2022

Personal Firearm Storage in the United States: Recent Estimates, Patterns, and Effectiveness of Interventions

This report describes what is meant by safe firearm storage, provides estimates of U.S. gun owners' storage practices from representative surveys, and presents research on the effectiveness of interventions to change such practices.
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Jun 28, 2022

Development of the RAND State Firearm Law Database and Supporting Materials

Part of RAND's Gun Policy in America initiative, the RAND State Firearm Law Database is a longitudinal data set of state firearm laws that is free to the public to support improved analysis and understanding of the effects of various laws.
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Jun 13, 2022

States Have Leading Role to Play in Preventing Mass Shootings

As the United States grapples with how to prevent mass shootings, state governments might be best positioned to take the lead on long-term, sustainable efforts that prevent targeted violence.
Tool

May 31, 2022

Mass Attacks Defense Toolkit

RAND researchers created this tool to advance efforts to prevent and reduce intentional, interpersonal firearm violence and public mass attacks in the United States.
Commentary

May 27, 2022

The Gun Laws That Work, and the Gun Laws That Don't

Are certain gun laws and regulations likely to improve or worsen public safety? At a time when many Americans are searching for solutions to the country's intolerably high rates of gun violence, social scientists can help provide answers.
Research

May 18, 2022

Police Killings: Road Map of Research Priorities for Change

In this report, RAND Corporation researchers summarize what is currently known about killings committed by police officers in the United States and recommend areas in which future research efforts could help inform policymaking and decisionmaking.
Article

Mar 7, 2022

Exploring the Disagreement Among Gun Policy Experts

A survey asked gun policy researchers, advocates, and congressional staffers who work on gun issues for their views on policies ranging from weapon bans to stand-your-ground laws. Regardless of where they stood, they were not so dissimilar in what they thought gun policies should be trying to accomplish.
Press

Nov 30, 2021

Wide Disagreement Remains Among U.S. Gun Policy Experts; Five Policies Show Less Disagreement

Wide disagreement remains among U.S. experts who study gun policy issues, with differing opinions about how much individual policies may reduce gun violence and other harms caused by firearms. Researchers found there were generally two ideological camps—a restrictive group (who favor more-restrictive regulatory approaches to gun ownership and use) and a permissive group (who favor more-permissive regulatory approaches to gun ownership and use).
Research

Nov 30, 2021

The Magnitude and Sources of Disagreement Among Gun Policy Experts: Second Edition

This report describes combined results from two fieldings of a survey of gun policy experts designed to identify areas of agreement and whether disagreements stem from assumptions about the policies' effects or from differences in policy objectives.
Tool

Nov 30, 2021

Gun Policy Expert-Opinion Tool: Comparing Insights on the Potential Effects of Policy Changes

Part of the RAND Gun Policy in America initiative, this tool allows users to explore how different combinations of gun policies might affect various outcomes in each state and nationally. The results are based on a survey of gun policy experts.
Nov 30, 2021

In Search of Common Ground: Expert Judgments on Gun Policy Effects

Different communities of gun policy experts have sharply divided views on many gun policies. But are there policies for which these differences are less stark, and might such findings reveal combinations of policies that experts of every stripe could agree on? RAND researchers surveyed nearly 100 gun policy experts to try to answer these questions.
Research

Sep 2, 2021

A Review of Public Data About Terrorism and Targeted Violence to Meet U.S. Department of Homeland Security Mission Needs

Researchers reviewed U.S. Department of Homeland Security data needs for countering terrorism and targeted violence and assessed the alignment between those needs and available resources. This report documents their findings and recommendations.

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