TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Gun attitudes on campus: united and divided by safety needs
JO  - Journal of social psychology
A1  - Shepperd, James A.
A1  - Pogge, Gabrielle
A1  - Losee, Joy E.
A1  - Lipsey, Nikolette P.
A1  - Redford, Liz
SP  - 615
EP  - 624
VL  - 158
IS  - 5
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0022-4545
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2017.1412932
ID  - ref1
ER  -