{"id":169,"date":"2015-10-06T15:50:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/?page_id=169"},"modified":"2015-10-06T15:54:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T15:54:42","slug":"assessing-views-about-gun-violence-reduction-policy-a-look-at-type-of-violence-and-expected-effectiveness","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/resources\/assessing-views-about-gun-violence-reduction-policy-a-look-at-type-of-violence-and-expected-effectiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing views about gun violence reduction policy: A look at type of violence and expected effectiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Susan B. Sorenson<\/strong><br \/>\nUniversity of Pennsylvania, 3815 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA<br \/>\nAvailable online as of 4 May 2015<\/p>\n<p>Preventive Medicine<br \/>\nVolume 79, October 2015, Pages 50\u201354<br \/>\nSpecial Issue on the Epidemiology and Prevention of Gun Violence<br \/>\nDOI:10.1016\/j.ypmed.2015.04.025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Public opinion polling about gun policy is routinely conducted and often disregarded.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>We explored ways to make surveys more useful to policy makers, researchers, and the general public.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Support was high for all but one policy, putting armed officers in schools.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Universal background checks are expected to be effective, even by people who do not support them.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Policies expected to reduce multiple forms of violence are not expected to reduce suicide.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Read the full text at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0091743515001528\" target=\"_blank\">ScienceDirect\u00ae,\u00a0\u00a0Elsevier\u2019s leading information solution for researchers<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan B. Sorenson University of Pennsylvania, 3815 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA Available online as of 4 May 2015 Preventive Medicine Volume 79, October 2015, Pages 50\u201354 Special Issue on the Epidemiology and Prevention of Gun Violence DOI:10.1016\/j.ypmed.2015.04.025 Highlights: Public opinion polling about gun policy is routinely conducted and often disregarded. We explored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":145,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169\/revisions\/173"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}