@article{ref1,
title="Gun attitudes on campus: united and divided by safety needs",
journal="Journal of social psychology",
year="2018",
author="Shepperd, James A. and Pogge, Gabrielle and Losee, Joy E. and Lipsey, Nikolette P. and Redford, Liz",
volume="158",
number="5",
pages="615-624",
abstract="All people share a need for safety. Yet, people's pursuit of safety can conflict when it comes to guns, where some people perceive guns as a means to safety and others perceive guns as a threat to safety. We examined this conflict on a United States college campus that prohibits guns. We distinguished between people (N = 11,390) who (a) own a gun for protection, (b) own a gun exclusively for reasons other than protection (e.g., collecting, sports), and (c) do not own a gun. Protection owners felt less safe on campus, supported allowing guns on campus, and reported that they and others would feel safer and that gun violence would decrease if they carried a gun on campus. Non-owners and non-protection owners felt the reverse. The findings suggest that protection concerns, rather than gun-ownership per se, account for diverging perceptions and attitudes about guns and gun control.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-4545",
doi="10.1080/00224545.2017.1412932",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2017.1412932"
}