购买枪支的兴趣是对“黑人的命也是命”抗议活动的反弹

IF 2.7 1区社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY

Social Forces Pub Date : 2025-07-06 DOI:10.1093/sf/soaf096

Masha Krupenkin, Elad Yom-Tov, David Rothschild

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摘要

抗议活动如何影响美国人的枪支持有决定？我们使用一个新的枪支相关网络搜索数据集，结合地理编码的抗议数据，研究了2020年“黑人的命也是命”（BLM）抗议活动对美国人购买枪支兴趣的影响。我们发现，靠近BLM抗议活动的地理位置与购买枪支的网络搜索之间存在明显的关系，但这些搜索与靠近重新开放抗议活动之间的关系为零。然后，我们使用用户的网络搜索历史来检查潜在枪支购买者的种族态度，发现在2020年BLM抗议期间，接触种族保守叙事的用户比其他可比搜索者对枪支购买兴趣的峰值要大得多。这些结果表明，黑人民权抗议活动可以成为购买枪支兴趣的催化剂。

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Gun purchase interest as backlash to Black Lives Matter protests

How do protests affect Americans’ gun ownership decisions? Using a novel dataset of gun-related web searches in combination with geocoded protest data, we examine the effects of the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests on Americans’ interest in firearm purchase. We find a clear relationship between geographic proximity to BLM protests and firearm purchase web searches, but a null relationship between these searches and proximity to re-opening protests. We then examine racial attitudes of would-be gun buyers using users’ web search histories and find that users exposed to racially conservative narratives had significantly larger spikes in gun purchase interest during the 2020 BLM protests than did other comparable searchers. These results suggest that Black civil rights protests can serve as a catalyst for gun purchase interest.

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Social Forces SOCIOLOGY-

CiteScore

6.30

自引率

6.20%

发文量

123

期刊介绍： Established in 1922, Social Forces is recognized as a global leader among social research journals. Social Forces publishes articles of interest to a general social science audience and emphasizes cutting-edge sociological inquiry as well as explores realms the discipline shares with psychology, anthropology, political science, history, and economics. Social Forces is published by Oxford University Press in partnership with the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.