Mass Shootings: Policies and Prevention
Through this work, SURGE researchers are generating scientific evidence to inform policies and other recommendations specific to the prevention of mass gun violence. Current projects, publications, and relevant media are included below.
Current Projects
Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy
Relevant Publications
The Effect of Large-Capacity Magazine Bans on High-Fatality Mass Shootings, 1990 - 2017 - Klarevas L, Conner A, Hemenway D, American Journal of Public Health, 2019
Examining Mass Shootings From a Neighborhood Perspective: An Analysis of Multiple Casualty Events and Media Reporting in Philadelphia, United States - Beard JH, Jacoby SF, James R, Dong B, Seamon MJ, Maher Z, Goldberg AJ, Morrison CN, Preventive Medicine, 2019
Changes in U.S. Mass Shooting Deaths Associated With the 1994 - 2004 Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Analysis of Open-Source Data - Klarevas L, The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2019
Cross-Sectional Study of Loss of Life Expectancy at Different Ages Related to Firearm Deaths Among Black and White Americans - Kalesan B, Vyliparambil MA, Zuo Y, Siracuse JJ, Fagan JA, Branas C, Galea S, BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, 2019
State Gun Laws, Gun Ownership, and Mass Shootings in the US: Cross-Sectional Time Series - Reeping PM, Cerda M, Kalesan B, Wiebe DJ, Galea S, Branas C, BMJ, 2019
Rapid Response to Mass Shootings - Reeping PM, Jacoby S, Rajan S, Branas C, Criminology and Public Policy, 2019
The Political Weaponization of Gun Owners: The National Rifle Association’s Cultivation, Dissemination, and Use of a Group Social Identity - Lacombe M, The Journal of Politics, 2019
Funding for Gun Violence Research is Key to the Health and Safety of the Nation - Rajan S, Branas C, Hargarten S, Allegrante JP, American Journal of Public Health, 2018
Academic Public Health and the Firearm Crisis: An Agenda for Action - Branas C, Flescher A, Formica MK, Galea S, Hennig N, Liller KD, Madanat HN, Park A, Rosenthal JE, Ying J, American Journal of Public Health, 2017
Firearm Violence as a Disease - “Hot People” or “Hot Spots”? - Branas C, Jacoby S, Andreyeva E, JAMA Internal Medicine, 2017
Firearms on College Campuses: Research, Evidence and Policy Implications, 2016
Rampage Nation: Securing America From Mass Shootings - Klarevas L, 2016
Media
Newsroom, Teachers College, Columbia University - August 2019 A Right Worth Fighting For
Los Angeles Times - August 2019 Op-Ed: What gun control activists can learn from the NRA
WNYC News - March 2018 Youth Against Gun Violence, ‘From Black Lives Matter’ to the ‘March for our Lives’
New York Daily News - May 2018 After the Sante Fe Massacre, bury the ‘good guy with a gun’ myth: Armed staffers won’t deter shooters or keep kids safe
Los Angeles Times - March 2018 If the assault weapons ban ‘didn’t work,’ then why does the evidence suggest it saved lives?
New York Daily News - February 2018 It’s the guns (and ammo), stupid: Dissuading killers and hardening targets matter too, but access to weapons matters most
US News - December 2015 America’s Deadly Gun Disease