Hill Terrence D, Wen Ming, Ellison Christopher G, Wu Guangzhen, Dowd-Arrow Benjamin, Su Dejun
Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA.
Department of Sociology, The University of Utah, 390 1530 E #301, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
Prev Med Rep. 2021 Nov 14;24:101634. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101634. eCollection 2021 Dec.
In this paper, we document the social patterning of recent gun purchases to advance a contemporary social epidemiology of the pandemic arms race. We employ cross-sectional survey data from the 2020 , which included a national sample of 2,709 community-dwelling adults living in the United States. We use binary logistic regression to model recent pandemic gun purchases as a function of age, sex, race/ethnicity, nativity status, region of residence, marital status, number of children, education, household income, pandemic job change, religious service attendance, pandemic religion change, and political party. Overall, 6% of the sample reported purchasing a new gun during the pandemic. Multivariate regression results suggest that pandemic gun purchasers tend to be male, younger, US-born, less educated, recently unemployed, experiencing changes in their religious beliefs, Republicans, and residents of southern states. To our knowledge, we are among the first to formally document a new population of pandemic gun owners that is characterized by youth, US-nativity, and religious volatility. Our analyses underscore the need for public health initiatives designed to enhance gun-related safety during pandemics, including, for example, addressing underlying motivations for recent gun purchases and improving access to training programs.
在本文中，我们记录了近期枪支购买情况的社会模式，以推进对这一流行的军备竞赛的当代社会流行病学研究。我们使用了2020年的横断面调查数据，该数据包含了居住在美国的2709名社区成年居民的全国样本。我们使用二元逻辑回归模型，将近期疫情期间的枪支购买情况作为年龄、性别、种族/族裔、出生地状况、居住地区、婚姻状况、子女数量、教育程度、家庭收入、疫情期间工作变化、宗教活动参与情况、疫情期间宗教信仰变化以及政党的函数进行建模。总体而言，6%的样本报告在疫情期间购买了新枪。多变量回归结果表明，疫情期间购买枪支的人往往是男性、年轻人、美国出生、受教育程度较低、近期失业、宗教信仰发生变化、共和党人以及南方各州的居民。据我们所知，我们是首批正式记录以年轻人、美国本土出生和宗教信仰不稳定为特征的新一批疫情期间枪支拥有者的人之一。我们的分析强调了在疫情期间开展旨在提高与枪支相关的安全性的公共卫生举措的必要性，例如，解决近期购买枪支的潜在动机以及改善培训项目的获取途径。
