Reducing Gun Violence in America: Evidence for Change

This module introduces the impact of gun violence in the United States, trends in gun ownership and use, defensive gun use, legal and illegal gun markets, and the relationship between firearms and suicide risk.

This module covers federal, state, and local powers, the Second Amendment, litigation as a public health strategy, obstacles to research and policy advancement, age-related firearm restrictions, child access prevention laws, and the intersection of gun violence with intimate partner violence.

This module discusses the relationship between mental illness and violence, firearm restrictions affecting people with mental illness, background checks, purchaser licensing, waiting periods, and regulation of gun dealers.

This module covers standards for civilian gun carrying, "right to carry" laws, "stand your ground" laws, threat assessment and school-based interventions, gun-free zones, campus carry, and safe gun storage.

This module discusses assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, personalized guns, microstamping technology, ballistic identification, policing illegal gun carrying, focused deterrence, domestic violence dispossession, and police-involved shootings.

This module covers street outreach and violence interruption, clinical approaches to gun violence prevention, place-based interventions, public opinion on gun policy, and overall takeaways from the course.