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  1. "American protective gun ownership privatizes collective behavior, transmuting the role of the state to keep citizens safe into individual actions to protect one's family and one's immediate community. In doing so, owners may sharpen the ingroup/outgroup divide into those who need protection and those who need to be protected against. Using nationally representative individual-level data from the General Social Survey, we find that American gun owners have friendship structures that are more ingroup-focused than nonowners: more cohesive (more of owners’ friends are friends with each other) and less diverse (fewer of owners’ friends are of different races or religions). Using county-aggregated data from over 70 million Facebook users (over 21 billion friendship ties), we similarly find that US counties with higher rates of gun ownership have friendship structures that are more cohesive and less diverse. This is mirrored in our findings that states and counties with higher rates of firearm ownership have lower rates of social infrastructural sites that bring communities together and lower rates of civic trust. Finally, we show evidence that the presence of guns is a quasi-causal factor in declining social capital—using modern time-series analyses, we show that a state-level increase in gun sales predicts a significant decrease in the next year's rates of social capital."

    #firearms
    #guns
    #ChronicImaginationsOfHomicide

    academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art

  2. "American protective gun ownership privatizes collective behavior, transmuting the role of the state to keep citizens safe into individual actions to protect one's family and one's immediate community. In doing so, owners may sharpen the ingroup/outgroup divide into those who need protection and those who need to be protected against. Using nationally representative individual-level data from the General Social Survey, we find that American gun owners have friendship structures that are more ingroup-focused than nonowners: more cohesive (more of owners’ friends are friends with each other) and less diverse (fewer of owners’ friends are of different races or religions). Using county-aggregated data from over 70 million Facebook users (over 21 billion friendship ties), we similarly find that US counties with higher rates of gun ownership have friendship structures that are more cohesive and less diverse. This is mirrored in our findings that states and counties with higher rates of firearm ownership have lower rates of social infrastructural sites that bring communities together and lower rates of civic trust. Finally, we show evidence that the presence of guns is a quasi-causal factor in declining social capital—using modern time-series analyses, we show that a state-level increase in gun sales predicts a significant decrease in the next year's rates of social capital."

    #firearms
    #guns
    #ChronicImaginationsOfHomicide

    academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art

  3. "American protective gun ownership privatizes collective behavior, transmuting the role of the state to keep citizens safe into individual actions to protect one's family and one's immediate community. In doing so, owners may sharpen the ingroup/outgroup divide into those who need protection and those who need to be protected against. Using nationally representative individual-level data from the General Social Survey, we find that American gun owners have friendship structures that are more ingroup-focused than nonowners: more cohesive (more of owners’ friends are friends with each other) and less diverse (fewer of owners’ friends are of different races or religions). Using county-aggregated data from over 70 million Facebook users (over 21 billion friendship ties), we similarly find that US counties with higher rates of gun ownership have friendship structures that are more cohesive and less diverse. This is mirrored in our findings that states and counties with higher rates of firearm ownership have lower rates of social infrastructural sites that bring communities together and lower rates of civic trust. Finally, we show evidence that the presence of guns is a quasi-causal factor in declining social capital—using modern time-series analyses, we show that a state-level increase in gun sales predicts a significant decrease in the next year's rates of social capital."

    #firearms
    #guns
    #ChronicImaginationsOfHomicide

    academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art

  4. "American protective gun ownership privatizes collective behavior, transmuting the role of the state to keep citizens safe into individual actions to protect one's family and one's immediate community. In doing so, owners may sharpen the ingroup/outgroup divide into those who need protection and those who need to be protected against. Using nationally representative individual-level data from the General Social Survey, we find that American gun owners have friendship structures that are more ingroup-focused than nonowners: more cohesive (more of owners’ friends are friends with each other) and less diverse (fewer of owners’ friends are of different races or religions). Using county-aggregated data from over 70 million Facebook users (over 21 billion friendship ties), we similarly find that US counties with higher rates of gun ownership have friendship structures that are more cohesive and less diverse. This is mirrored in our findings that states and counties with higher rates of firearm ownership have lower rates of social infrastructural sites that bring communities together and lower rates of civic trust. Finally, we show evidence that the presence of guns is a quasi-causal factor in declining social capital—using modern time-series analyses, we show that a state-level increase in gun sales predicts a significant decrease in the next year's rates of social capital."

    #firearms
    #guns
    #ChronicImaginationsOfHomicide

    academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art

  5. "American protective gun ownership privatizes collective behavior, transmuting the role of the state to keep citizens safe into individual actions to protect one's family and one's immediate community. In doing so, owners may sharpen the ingroup/outgroup divide into those who need protection and those who need to be protected against. Using nationally representative individual-level data from the General Social Survey, we find that American gun owners have friendship structures that are more ingroup-focused than nonowners: more cohesive (more of owners’ friends are friends with each other) and less diverse (fewer of owners’ friends are of different races or religions). Using county-aggregated data from over 70 million Facebook users (over 21 billion friendship ties), we similarly find that US counties with higher rates of gun ownership have friendship structures that are more cohesive and less diverse. This is mirrored in our findings that states and counties with higher rates of firearm ownership have lower rates of social infrastructural sites that bring communities together and lower rates of civic trust. Finally, we show evidence that the presence of guns is a quasi-causal factor in declining social capital—using modern time-series analyses, we show that a state-level increase in gun sales predicts a significant decrease in the next year's rates of social capital."

    #firearms
    #guns
    #ChronicImaginationsOfHomicide

    academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art

  6. A quotation from Molly Ivins

       I am not anti-gun. I’m pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife.
       In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We’d turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don’t ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.

    Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
    Essay (1993-03-09), “Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns,” Creators Syndicate column, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

    More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/16945/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #danger #guncontrol #gunsafety #guns #knife #knives #safety

  7. SUFFER NOT THE MUTANT, THE HERETIC, THE XENO
    The weaponry of Warhammer 40K, well some of them anyway, the Imperium's general attitude toward non-humans (Xenos) is one of extreme xenophobia and a policy of extermination.
    "The only good Xeno is a dead Xeno"

    #Guns #ImperiumofMan #Warhammer40K #Weapons

  8. I know you 2A types are going to be upset about Vermont trying to ban firearms in bars, but considering how much you did to help install the GOP/VTGOP's rights ignoring, proven rapist god king as ruler over our lives ... well, I'm not inclined to listen right now.
    #politics #guns #rights #nra #republicans #gop