By Richard L. Legault
Utilizing facts from sixteen years of the overall Social Surveys, Legault examines alterations in HGO over the years. a few hypotheses to give an explanation for adjustments in HGO reporting are evaluated and confirmed together with differential reporting by way of women and men (Gender Gap), alterations in loved ones make-up and inhabitants, the urbanization of the USA, and a precise aid in total firearms possession. those hypotheses are validated utilizing logistic regression, logistic fixed-effects versions, and altering parameter versions. result of those checks indicate that fresh rate reductions in HGO is probably not as stated as as soon as concept, and are as a result of a fancy interaction of numerous demographic alterations within the U.S. inhabitants.
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There was perhaps even less impact on crime rates (Kennett & Anderson, 1975:184-185). Although there is no way to 20 Letters to the New York Tribune criticized the Sullivan Law by making statements such as, “Even if he [Mayor Gaynor’s would be assassin] obeyed the law, which is unlikely, he could still choose an ice pick, a reaping hook, or a butcher’s cleaver” and that earlier laws would have been sufficient if properly enforced (Kennett & Anderson, 1974:178). These observations in 1911 are similar to arguments offered against gun control a century later.
Using 1973 and 1974 GSS data, the authors estimated logistic regressions on handgun ownership finding that there was no effect of handgun ownership and socialization in southern states (O’Conner & Lizotte, 1978:426-427). There are, however, significant effects of socialization in rural areas and income on handgun ownership (O’Conner & Lizotte, 1978:427). Nonetheless, this does not address the quandary of gun ownership in general and it’s potential relationship with the South nor does it disentangle the possible connections to a Southern subcultural influence.
Nonetheless, to interpret the wealth of information offered by such polls without being informed by the cultural and historical dimension of gun ownership in America would provide us with a narrow understanding indeed. CONCLUSION The prevalence of private firearms ownership in the United States is extremely high, especially when compared to most other western, industrialized countries (Kopel, 1992:13-15; Wright, 1995:63). Literature that attempts to explain this phenomenon, and that which describes gun ownership in the United States, is often limited to one viewpoint on the topic.
