Benjamin R. Young. 2021. Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader. North Korea Third World. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Ebook ISBN 9781503627642. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503627642

BACKGROUND A variety of claims about possible associations between gun ownership rates, mental illness burden, and the risk of firearm-related deaths have been put forward. However, systematic data on this issue among various countries remain scant. Our objective was to assess whether the popular notion "guns make a nation safer" has any merits. METHODS Data on gun ownership were obtained fro...

OBJECTIVES In the United States, firearm deaths are almost as frequent as motor vehicle deaths. Firearm unintentional and suicide death rates are raised in rural areas. This study examines firearm prevalence and storage practices in three different types of rural households. METHODS Adults from a stratified random sample of 983 households in a rural Iowa county were interviewed. The chi2 test...

The recent development of ultrafast imaging and diffraction opened a new frontier for studying structural dynamics at nanoscales. It has become one of the key directions for future electron microscopy. Ultrafast electron microscopy combines the superior spatial resolution of conventional electron microscope with short electron pulses enabling the detection of electronic and atomic motion on the...

OBJECTIVE Denial of handgun purchases by prohibited people and knowledge of the structure of gun commerce have helped to deter and prevent firearm violence. The authors hypothesize that handguns involved in a denied purchase would more closely resemble those used in crime compared with handguns sold. DESIGN Cross sectional. SETTING Denied and completed handgun sales in California, 1998-2000...

Although psychological research shows that guns are aggressive cues, proponents of liberal gun control argue that people rather than guns are to blame for gun-related violence. For instance, athletic target-shooters might classify guns as athletic rather than aggressive stimuli and thus should not be more aggressive than the general population. The present work investigated aggression and emoti...

Objective A small-scale exploration of the use of video analysis to study robberies. We analyze the use of weapons as part of the body posturing of robbers as they attempt to attain dominance. Methods Qualitative analyses of video footage of 23 shop robberies. We used Observer XT software (version 12) for fine-grained multimodal coding, capturing diverse bodily behavior by various actors simu...