GSU Library Research Guides: The Second Amendment and Gun Control: Mass Shootings

Videos

Barbini, C. (Director). (2019). The New Normal [Video file]. Collective Eye Films. Retrieved May 31, 2022, from Kanopy.

Hilderbrand, S. (Director). (2019). American Totem: Reckoning With Gun Cultures [Video file]. Video Project. Retrieved May 31, 2022, from Kanopy.

Duwe, G., Sanders, N. E., Rocque, M., & Fox, J. A. (2022). Forecasting the Severity of Mass Public Shootings in the United States. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 38(2), 385–423. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-021-09499-5

Freitas, C., & Annas, G. D. (2022). Warning behaviors and leaked intent: Potential new avenues to prevent mass shootings. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 67(1), 275–278. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.14950

Hunter, L. Y., Ginn, M. H., Storyllewellyn, S., & Rutland, J. (2021). Are mass shootings acts of terror? Applying key criteria in definitions of terrorism to mass shootings in the United States from 1982 to 2018. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism & Political Aggression, 13(4), 265–294. https://doi.org/10.1080/19434472.2020.1762108

Paez, G. R., Capellan, J. A., & Johnson, M. G. (2021). Contextualising mass school shootings in the United States. Journal of Investigative Psychology & Offender Profiling, 18(3), 170–184. https://doi.org/10.1002/jip.1577

Silva, J. R. (2021). A Comparative Analysis of Foiled and Completed Mass Shootings. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 46(2), 187–208. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-020-09552-2

Skeem, J., & Mulvey, E. (2020). What role does serious mental illness play in mass shootings, and how should we address it? Criminology & Public Policy, 19(1), 85–108. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9133.12473

Gun Violence in America by Alexander DeConde
Few Social Issues Have produced more exaggerated claims and contention among Americans than the struggle to control gun violence. Fueling the emotional fire in debates between firearm groups such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) and gun control advocates is the dispute over the importance of guns in American culture. Is the fondness for firearms truly part of a venerable American tradition, one to be observed with very few limits? In this fascinating inquiry, Alexander DeConde delves into the myths and politics regarding gun keeping, as well as the controversies over gun use, crime, and policing from the early days of the republic to the present. The fact that the second amendment to the constitution appears to protect the right of the citizenry to keep and bear arms has led many Americans to assume that our forebears were uniformly a gun-loving people. By the early 1900s, the image of the American pioneer building the nation with gun in hand had become a widely recognized symbol of virtue, self-reliance, and the fight against tyranny. This glorified perspective of civilian gun keeping, maintains DeConde, offered an appealing reason for allowing private citizens easy access