• Disproportionate Impact of Gun Violence on Minorities

    Bernstein et al. (2019) report that ethnic minorities in urban settings experience the majority of deaths due to gun violence in the U.S. In fact, firearm mortality is now the leading cause of death for young African American males between the ages of 15 and 34 (Payton et al., 2015). Black Americans had the highest…

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  • Gun Violence and Psychology

    Gun violence in the United States has resulted in a tragic loss of life and is becoming more pervasive. Between 1968 and 2017, 1.5 million people were killed by guns (BBC News, 2022). This is more people than were killed in every U.S. war since the Revolutionary War in 1776. In 2020 alone, 45,222 Americans…

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  • Author’s Introduction

    Rich Warmke is a PhD student of psychology at Walden University. He has spent the last 2 years studying various aspects of psychology and is passionate about applying psychology to drive social change. Rich is particularly interested in applying psychology to the social issue of gun violence in the United States. In 2017, Rich personally…

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