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‘A House of Dynamite’ | Anatomy of a Scene
The director Kathryn Bigelow narrates a tense sequence from her film, in which a ballistic missile is headed for the United States.
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The expert's guide to handgun marksmanship for self-defense, target shooting, and hunting
For self-defense with a handgun, target shooting, or hunting, this new book is a must read! The expertise of the world's leading handgun experts is brought together for the first time in this convenient pocket-sized edition -- everything you need to know to improve upon your handgun marksmanship skills. This informative, fact-filled book is guaranteed to improve your handgun accuracy.
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He lost his sister at Parkland. Now he's a survivor of FSU
Robbie Alhadeff, whose sister was killed in Parkland in 2018, spoke to The Post about reliving the tragedy after the FSU shooting.
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Duck hunting
\"This photo-illustrated book for elementary students describes duck hunting, the equipment needed, such as a shotgun, duck blinds, and decoys. Includes information on where to hunt and how to stay safe\"-- Provided by publisher.
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From a Taller Tower
We, as a nation, have become desensitized to the shock and pain
in the wake of mass shootings. In the bottomless silence between
gunshots, as political stalemate ensures inaction, the killing
continues; the dying continues. From a Taller Tower
attends to the silence that has left us empty in the aftermath of
these atrocities. Veteran journalist Seamus McGraw chronicles the
rise of the mass shooter to dismantle the myths we have constructed
around the murderers and ourselves.
In 1966, America's first mass shooter, from atop the University
of Texas tower, unleashed a new reality: the fear that any of us
may be targeted by a killer, and the complicity we bear in granting
these murderers the fame or infamy they crave. Addressing
individual cases in the epidemic that began in Austin, From a
Taller Tower bluntly confronts our obsession with the
shooters-and explores the isolation, narcissism, and sense of
victimhood that fan their obsessions. Drawing on the experiences of
survivors and first responders as well as the knowledge of mental
health experts, McGraw challenges the notion of the \"good guy with
a gun,\" the idolization of guns (including his own), and the
reliability of traumatized memory. Yet in this terrible history,
McGraw reminds us of the humanity that can stop the killing and the
dying.
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Variation in Rates of Fatal Police Shootings across US States: the Role of Firearm Availability
The USA has very high rates of homicide by police compared to other high-income countries, with approximately 1000 civilians killed annually. The overwhelming majority of these police homicides are fatal shootings. Over the past 5 years, several comprehensive, real-time, data repositories, drawn largely from news reporting, have kept track of incidents in which civilians die during an encounter with the police and have become widely available. Data from these repositories, which are more complete than data available from federal data systems, have been used to explore fatal police shootings of civilians, often with a focus on racial disparities in police shootings of unarmed civilians, and have consistently found that police are more likely to shoot unarmed African American men than unarmed White men. Although numerous studies have examined how rates of police killings of civilians are related to several ecologic determinants of these events, no peer-reviewed study to date has examined the extent to which variation in police involved firearm homicides is explained by firearm prevalence while adjusting for violent crime rates (the most well-established ecologic factor associated with fatal police shootings). The current cross-sectional state-level analysis uses data on the number of civilians shot and killed by police in the line of duty, aggregated over 2015–2017. Data come from the Washington Post’s “Fatal Force Database”, which assembles the information from news reports and other sources. Data provided include information on whether the victim was armed, and, if so, with what weapon. Explanatory ecologic variables in our models include the violent crime rate, the percentage of the state population that is non-White, poverty rate, and urbanization, along with a validated proxy for firearm prevalence. We find that rates of police shooting deaths are significantly and positively correlated with levels of household gun ownership, even after accounting for the other explanatory variables. The association is stronger for the shooting of armed (with a gun) rather than unarmed victims.
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A Statistical Analysis of the Impact of Gun Ownership on Mass Shootings in the USA Between 2013 and 2022
Mass shootings (incidents with four or more people shot in a single event, not including the shooter) are becoming more frequent in the United States, posing a significant threat to public health and safety in the country. In the current study, we intended to analyze the impact of state-level prevalence of gun ownership on mass shootings—both the frequency and severity of these events. We applied the negative binomial generalized linear mixed model to investigate the association between gun ownership rate, as measured by a proxy (i.e., the proportion of suicides committed with firearms to total suicides), and population-adjusted rates of mass shooting incidents and fatalities at the state level from 2013 to 2022. Gun ownership was found to be significantly associated with the rate of mass shooting fatalities. Specifically, our model indicated that for every 1-SD increase—that is, for every 12.5% increase—in gun ownership, the rate of mass shooting fatalities increased by 34% (
p
value < 0.001). However, no significant association was found between gun ownership and rate of mass shooting incidents. These findings suggest that restricting gun ownership (and therefore reducing availability to guns) may not decrease the number of mass shooting events, but it may save lives when these events occur.
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Moving beyond “Best Practice”: Experiences in Police Reform and a Call for Evidence to Reduce Officer-Involved Shootings
In post-Ferguson America, police departments are being challenged to implement evidence-based changes in policies and training to reduce fatal police-citizen encounters. Of the litany of recommendations believed to reduce police shootings, five have garnered widespread support: body-worn cameras, de-escalation training, implicit bias training, early intervention systems, and civilian oversight. These highly endorsed interventions, however, are not supported by a strong body of empirical evidence that demonstrates their effectiveness. Guided by the available research on evidence-based policing and informed by the firsthand experience of one of the authors in implementing departmental reforms that followed the fatal shooting of a civilian by an officer, this article highlights promising reform strategies and opportunities to build the evidence base for effective use-of-force reforms. We call upon police executives to engage in evidence-based policing by scientifically testing interventions, and we call on academics to engage in rapid research responses for critical issues in policing.
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