While it is still too early to tell how the Parkland shooting could impact elections come November, Kristin Goss, an associate professor of public policy at Duke University, said that an important question this cycle will be whether the people that have pro-control feelings feel more strongly and p
Date: Mar 24, 2018
Category: U.S.
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Yes, the Parkland kids could change US gun policy. Here's what it would take.
Of course, the movements I studied had the advantage of being confined within individual states while those advocating gun regulations have been stymied by federalism, according topolitical scientist Kristin Goss. In particular, Second Amendment advocates tend to dominate rural states that holdo
Date: Mar 15, 2018
Category: Top Stories
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Senate Votes Down 4 Gun Policy Measures in Thorny Showdown
issue. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Senate Democrats see a great benefit to politically pursuing gun reform, said Kristin Goss, associate professor of public policy and political science at Duke University and co-author of "The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know.
Date: Jun 20, 2016
Category: U.S.
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Obama Thrusts Gun Control Debate Into Forefront of 2016 Race
"There's more organization, there's more capacity, there's more money," said Kristin Goss, a public policy professor at Duke University who has studied gun-control advocacy groups. But asked whether the new organizations can succeed in matching the energy and organizational power of the NRA in a gen
Date: Jan 05, 2016
Category: U.S.
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Obama: 'Shame on us' if Congress fails to restrict guns
"It was easy to detect a sense from Obama of real disbelief, mixed with anger, that people in Washington have forgotten about Sandy Hook," said Kristin Goss, a political scientist at Duke University and author of "Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America." "But there are a lot of fo
Date: Mar 28, 2013
Category: U.S.
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NRA had been silent after shootings but may now be regrouping
Kristin Goss, an associate professor of public policy and political science at Duke University and author of "Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America," said that strategy is part of the organization's playbook after an incident such as this one.
Date: Dec 18, 2012
Category: U.S.
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How will Newtown shootings change the US gun debate?
Meanwhile, the backlash against Democratic politicians who passed gun control bills in 1993 and 1994 frightened centre-left candidates into steering clear of the issue, says Kristin Goss of Duke University.