Firearm Control and School Shootings

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Firearm Control and School Shootings

The source in question provides interesting information encompassing the correlation that exists between the control of firearm possession and the recurrence of school shootings in the United States. Foremost, Gius (318) postulates that regulations in the form of prohibition of assault weapons have been proven to possess a decreasing impact on the occurrence of school shootings based on the number of victims by nearly 55 percent. Consequently, the study adds that the implementation of accepted gun control regulations, specifically dealer background inspections, concealed carry legislation, and private-sale background inspections, possessed a disproportionate effect towards school shootings (Gius 319). Essentially, these firearm control policies posed insignificant impact on the reduction of school shootings. The source is reliable since other resources can be utilized to corroborate the respective findings. Consequently, the application of a two-way fixed impact model enhances the source’s deduction regarding the relationship between firearm control and school shootings.

The next source advocates for a more complex rendering of the relationship between firearm control and school shootings. While the possession of firearms may inspire violent victimization in institutions of learning, the authors posit that people and guns are not isolated from historical and social influences (Metzl and MacLeish 243). In fact, the relationship between firearm control and school shootings is less contributory due to the rising connections drawn towards mental illness (Metzl and MacLeish 243). The addition of mental illness into the respective correlation additionally complicates any understanding directed towards the impact of firearm control on the reduction of school shootings by straining efforts aimed at addressing the former. In contrast to the first resource, the source is less dependable since it does not incorporate sufficient academic resources that essentially affirm or disprove the core position. Lastly, the source fails to establish a coherent position due to its approach as a review rather than a study.

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Gius, Mark. “The Effects of State and Federal Gun Control Laws on School Shootings.” Applied Economics Letters, vol. 25, no. 5, 2017, pp. 317-320.

Metzl, Jonathan M., and Kenneth T. MacLeish. “Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms.” American Journal of Public Health, vol. 105, no. 2, 2015, pp. 240-249.