LOS ANGELES – Researchers at UCLA Thursday announced they received a nearly $600,000 grant to study gun violence related to firearm ownership, storage practices and perceptions of gun safety.
UCLA said the grant will help fill data gaps about risk factors for gun suicide and urban gun violence related to understudied and disproportionately affected subpopulations, such as youth and young adults, veterans, immigrants and LGBT people.
The recipients of the grant from the National Collaborative for Gun Violence Research are Ninez Ponce, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and Michael Rodriguez, professor and vice chair in the Department of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
“Research has a critical role to play in informing effective gun policy,” said Rodriguez, who serves as co-director of the UCLA Firearm Violence Prevention Center. “We are excited to be part of this new wave of gun policy research, especially given the rigorous standards set by the Collaborative.”
Ponce and Rodriguez’s study is among $7.5 million in grants announced by the Collaborative for 15 research projects that will produce evidence for improving gun policy in America, UCLA stated.
The grants build on a recent revival of gun violence research funding. In July 2019, the Collaborative awarded an initial round of $9.8 million to 17 research projects. Then, for the first time in more than 20 years, the federal government committed $25 million to support gun violence research, according to UCLA.
The university said research will also include a firearms module in the 2021 and 2022 California Health Interview Survey, the largest population- based state survey in the nation, which annually collects information from about 20,000 adults and adolescents representative of the state’s diverse population.
The survey will identify intervenable individual, family and neighborhood factors associated with risks to gun homicides and suicides.
The data will be made available to researchers and the public, including policy briefs on gun issues in key population groups, UCLA stated.
“Taking a public health approach is vital in addressing the root causes of violence and how they contribute to the devastating premature deaths of thousands of people in the U.S. each year,” Ponce said.
Collaborative Director Andrew Morral said that since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, both sales of firearms and deaths from gun violence have increased across the country.
“We must answer the question: `What works and what doesn’t?’ to reduce gun violence,” Morral said. “Studies like Dr. Ponce and Dr. Rodriguez’s fill a critical gap in our understanding of gun violence and how to prevent it.”
According to the National Collaborative for Gun Violence Research, gun violence is one of the five leading causes of death among Americans aged 1 to 64.
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Anyone really says
600,000!? For gun violence research? Lmao!!! What a joke. I’ll do it for free. Here you go: people without God are animals, and animals kill other animals.
Have gun. Will travel. says
Good news!! New York’s Attorney General is suing the NRA for fraud and it intends to shut it down like it did with Trump’s “university” and fraudulent “charity”.
Wayne LaPew was living high off the dues the suckers paid into the NRA coffers and he is in trouble now.
Trump is also grifting by using campaign money to rent rooms in his resorts.
“There’s a sucker born every minute” PT Barnum and Donald J. Trump
You're a Democrat pansy says
Oh look here we have another Democrat pansy blaming Trump once you get on a ship and take off
Have gun. Will travel. says
Someone named You’re a Democrat pansy needs to take some male hormones and put his gun collection away. He’s an ammosexual.
That's ridiculous says
All that money for gun violence isn’t that a little ridiculous you know why they’re shooting each other you have no reason to research anything on waste that money put it to better use
surfside 6 says
Any study to research violence specific to a single method of killing is preposterous. And research done in such limited manner would only be important because involved researchers hope to excuse the criminal personalities that actually do the killing! What it would prove however is that UCLA has entirely too many liberals employed over there! But since liberals rarely marry. Rarely produce, mind their own business or obey the law. Such study does create revealing insight into the liberal brains chronic preoccupation with being shot one day.
Resident of LA County says
$600,000 spent to find out the cause of gun violence… Really?? Instead of investing that money into a little league or after school programs where kids can perfect their craft early and not be a P.O.S later on in life. How about investing money on mentors, and people with guidance. Anybody reading this, take the time and help out our youth because it’s obvious our county leaders and local leaders don’t know what they’re doing.