A new study has found that higher levels of racism in white Americans is associated with having a gun in the home and greater opposition to gun control policies. The research, published in PLoS One, used data from a large representative sample of white US voters. After accounting for numerous other factors such as income, education and political ideology, the researchers found that for each one point increase (on a scale from one to five) in symbolic racism there was a 50% increase in the odds of having a gun in the home and a 28% increase in support for policies allowing people to carry concealed guns.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 16:11:23 +0000
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