Pathways to concealed gun carrying.

Understanding the distinction between adolescent and adult pathways to concealed gun carrying can inform interventions to reduce gun violence.

Widespread, bipartisan aversion exists to neighbors owning AR-15s or storing guns insecurely.

Over 45,000 gun deaths occur annually in the United States, a country with more than 100 million gun owners and more than 350 million guns. Nevertheless, passing legislation to reduce gun violence is difficult because the issue is intensely polarized. Polls asking about general gun policies (e.

Making the call: how does perceived race affect desire to call the police?

Objectives: There is little scholarship about what affects calls for service, even as they originate the vast majority of police interventions in the USA. We test how racial perceptions, ambiguous situational contexts, and participant demographics affect desire to call the police.

Methods: We conduct a nationwide survey experiment with 2,038 participants, varying vignette racial composition (subjects described as black or white) and seriousness of event (less serious, more ambiguous or more serious, less ambiguous) to test two outcomes: 1) desire to call the police and 2) perceived threat.