Willingness to shoot: Public attitudes toward defensive gun use

摘要: A survey of 539 residents Cincinnati is used to examine the willingness use guns in self-defense against crime. Support for using deadly force lawbreakers largely contingent upon threat physical harm. In contrast previous research, firearm owners and non-owners do not differ their shoot offenders or support violence defensive purposes. Such findings question distinctiveness these two groups. firing at criminals, however, did have a cultural component. Willingness positively related childhood socialization into gun culture holding violent attitudes. It also belief that crime rising, perceived risk victimization, being nonwhite, male.