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New research indicates media coverage of gun control causes a spike in gun purchases after mass shootings
The fear of gun control in the United States might be one of the leading drivers behind people’s tendency to purchase firearms after a mass shooting, according to a new study based on the information-theoretic concept of transfer entropy.
The research, which appears in Nature Human Behaviour, is the first to demonstrate a causal link between media coverage of gun control policy and increases in firearm acquisition in the wake of mass shootings.
Previous research has suggested that there is usually a spike in gun purchases after mass shootings. However, the new study indicates that this spike is caused by media coverage related to gun control rather than the shootings themselves.
“In 2006, I left the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department at Virginia Tech, just a few months before we mourned one of the most gruesome mass shootings in history. During the Virginia Tech mass shooting, I lost one of my role models, Prof. Liviu Librescu, and I saw the lives of many friends and colleagues who were there changed forever,” said study author Maurizio Porfiri, a professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering.
New research indicates media coverage of gun control causes a spike in gun purchases after mass shootings
The fear of gun control in the United States might be one of the leading drivers behind people’s tendency to purchase firearms after a mass shooting, according to a new study based on the information-theoretic concept of transfer entropy.
The research, which appears in Nature Human Behaviour, is the first to demonstrate a causal link between media coverage of gun control policy and increases in firearm acquisition in the wake of mass shootings.
Previous research has suggested that there is usually a spike in gun purchases after mass shootings. However, the new study indicates that this spike is caused by media coverage related to gun control rather than the shootings themselves.
“In 2006, I left the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department at Virginia Tech, just a few months before we mourned one of the most gruesome mass shootings in history. During the Virginia Tech mass shooting, I lost one of my role models, Prof. Liviu Librescu, and I saw the lives of many friends and colleagues who were there changed forever,” said study author Maurizio Porfiri, a professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering.
New research indicates media coverage of gun control causes a spike in gun purchases after mass shootings
