Interest in purchasing firearms in the United States at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Liz Kerner, J. Losee, Gerald D. Higginbotham, J. Shepperd
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An increased demand for guns followed the arrival of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the U.S. Although firearms cannot prevent virus transmission, research suggests that, for some, firearms play a role in satisfying safety needs. We surveyed U.S. residents (N = 1,354;predominantly White) between April 6 and May 15, 2020, using ResearchMatch to examine who was purchasing firearms and to examine whether various pandemic concerns (e.g., infection, crime, and government threat to guns) were linked to interest in purchasing firearms. We also examined whether perceiving guns as a source of safety was a superordinate factor in predicting gun purchase interest that accounted for the variance observed with other predictors. Gun owners and political conservatives were more likely than non-owners and political liberals to express interest in purchasing firearms. Concern that the government would use COVID-19 to take guns was the strongest concern predicting firearm purchase interest followed by attitude toward Chinese people. However, perceiving guns as a source of safety accounted for most of the purchase interest. It absorbed all variance in firearm purchase interest attributable to political ideology, gun ownership, and attitude toward Chinese people, and part of the variance attributable to concerns with government threat to guns. Other pandemic concerns (e.g., concerns with infection or crime) absorbed no unique variance in firearm purchase interest. Finally, examination of reports of actual firearm purchases conformed closely with our findings for firearm purchase interest. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) Impact Statement During times of social upheaval such as the COVID-19 pandemic, various of threats may prompt interest in purchasing a firearm. However, gun owners and conservatives appear more inclined than other groups to purchase firearms. In addition, the perception that guns are a source of safety rather than a threat to safety-and to a lesser extent, concerns with government threat to guns-appear to underlie the increase in firearm purchases. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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在COVID-19大流行开始时,在美国购买枪支的兴趣。
尽管枪支不能阻止病毒的传播,但研究表明,对一些人来说,枪支在满足安全需求方面发挥了作用。我们在2020年4月6日至5月15日期间对美国居民(N = 1354;主要是白人)进行了调查,使用ResearchMatch来检查谁在购买枪支,并检查各种大流行问题(例如感染、犯罪和政府对枪支的威胁)是否与购买枪支的兴趣有关。我们还研究了是否认为枪支是安全的来源是预测枪支购买兴趣的首要因素,这解释了与其他预测因素观察到的差异。拥有枪支者和政治保守派比没有枪支者和政治自由派更有可能表达对购买枪支的兴趣。人们最担心的是“政府会利用新冠病毒收走枪支”,其次是对中国人的态度。然而,认为枪支是安全的来源占了购买兴趣的大部分。它吸收了由于政治意识形态、枪支所有权和对中国人的态度而引起的购买枪支兴趣的所有差异,以及由于担心政府对枪支的威胁而引起的部分差异。其他大流行病关切(例如,对感染或犯罪的关切)在枪支购买兴趣方面没有引起独特的变化。最后,对实际枪支购买报告的审查与我们对枪支购买兴趣的调查结果密切一致。影响声明在2019冠状病毒病大流行等社会动荡时期,各种威胁可能促使人们有兴趣购买枪支。然而,持枪者和保守派似乎比其他群体更倾向于购买枪支。此外,人们认为枪支是安全的来源,而不是安全的威胁,在较小程度上,人们担心政府对枪支的威胁,这似乎是枪支购买增加的基础。(PsycInfo数据库记录(c) 2022 APA,版权所有)
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