Purchasing Firearms from Walmart

Qualitative Research is using the characteristic of something such as colour, shape, texture, etc. Qualitative research is commonly used to research the quality of a product for example the red T-shirt is soft and fits well.

A research design can be understood as the planning of any scientific research from the first to the last step. In this sense it is a program to guide the researcher in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting facts (Bless and Higson-Smith, 1995:63).

In an article written in Forbes magazine it shows the myths and true statistics that the gun control lobbyist wouldn’t like you to know. This article and the stats show that the national violent crime rates that had climbed for 30 years from the early 1960s to 1990, fell drastically in 1993 with the increase of citizens purchasing fire arms. In December 2010 the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that murder and other violent crimes rates fell again significantly by 6.4%. a study done

According to Yilmaz (2013) there exist two significant approaches to research with respect to studying the social and individual world. According to Creswell (2014) three types of design quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods should remain in consideration when choosing a research designs at the start of the process. The two methods exist a quantitative and

Hence, many would believe that gun purchases would plummet; however, the opposite has occurred. Gun manufacture has risen around 40% since then. These correlations show that the access to guns do not contribute to the violence. Another scenario many pro-Gun Control advocates dismiss is how the crime guns are obtained. In a study conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, data has shown around 79% of crime guns are obtained through friends/family or street/illegal sources; thus, if the criminals wanted to acquire firearms they will find a source. In the BJS’ survey only 8.3% of the offenders bought their guns from a retail store. The government can only prevent these delinquents from obtaining guns in registered sources like retail stores, pawn shops, flea markets, and Federal Firearm License (FFL) certified gun shows. The other option is to take away the 226 year old right to “bear arms” created by our Founding Fathers. Instead of taking away prerogatives of the United States civilians, the government should target illegal selling, purchasing, and trading of

The purpose of this research is to determine what impact if any will be made if the Wal-Mart department store chain changes its current practices regarding the selling of firearms and accessories.

As a new venture just getting started first thing before making any solid decisions on the specifics of the services and products being promoted in the gun shop will be to do a survey and find out what the public wants. There are many ways to do the survey and for this shop the survey will be sent through the mail. It seems fitting that the more surveys sent back and answered the more interest it shows in the shop. Another method will be having a focus group (Hornsby, 2009). This will be beneficial because having one on one time with the customer base is important. Choosing participants from different walks of life is important because a large range of people do carry handguns and all for different reasons. Getting input on products and services they look for is important. Both mailing and group surveys will include the same questionnaire. Colorado State University states that survey research is the most common types of quantitative, social science research and that by using surveys you can

Would relaxing current restrictions on acquiring firearms for individuals in NSW, therefore leading to an increase in guns, cause a reduction in crime?

For example I am currently working on my capstone which is a discussion of corn dumping into Mexico post-NAFTA and the effects it has had on the peasant farmer in Mexico. I cannot just talk about the quantitative component of this action which included numbers on inflation, tons, subsidies, the price of corn, numbers and numbers and more numbers. What is going to bring it all together is the interviews in some of the documentaries about these displaced farmers in Mexico and a lot of the undocumented populations in the United States that were also displaced by the corn dumping policies of the United States after the implementation of NAFTA. With the qualitative approach I will be able to provide the depth component to my capstone because it will be focused on a small number of interviews of these farmers who represent many of the peasant farmers of Mexico.

The Pew Research Center is accredited nonprofit Organization based in Washington DC. Its purpose is to be an American think-tank for information regarding social and public opinion. This specific article focuses on why guns are used in the united states. First categorising why people own guns, for example; hunting, protection, collection, and hobbies. Then analyzing the groups of gun ownership within the categories of gender and political identification. The research also provides information on those who do not own guns and their reasoning to abstain from ownership. This article will be very useful in writing my paper for it provide an exact percentage of Americans who own gun and their purpose and reasoning for ownership.

Quantitative and Qualitative are said to be systematic in different design. Both design have to follow a process system that involved defining a principle of research.

Alternatively, a reason for conducting a mixed methods study might be that you seek to ex­plain in more detail through qualitative research the initial quantitative statistical results (i.e., ex­planatory design). Another justification results from combining the "best" of both quantitative and qualitative research (i.e., triangulation design).

“Whilst quantitative research may be mostly used for testing theory it can also be used for exploring an area and generating hypotheses and theory. Similarly qualitative research can be used for testing hypotheses and theories even though it is mostly used for theory generation” (Hughes, 2006). Both of these designs may be similar with testing theory, they are also similar in the tools that they use and how the data is analyzed. “Qualitative data often includes quantification (eg statements such as more than, less than, most as well as specific numbers). Quantitative (ie questionnaire) approaches can collect qualitative data through open ended questions” (Hughes, 2006). These similarities are what make these two study designs compatible for each other.

The research design is primarily concerned with the structure and framework of plans within which empirical activities concerned with research are to be undertaken. It encapsulates concepts such as population and sample of the study, methodology and characteristic of the study as well as instrument for generation of data and defines the layout for the entire field work (Sullivan, 2001; Sarantakos, 2005). Similarly, Baridam (2008) describe research design as the basic question of how the focus of the research will be brought into and how they will be employed within the research setting to obtain the required information. It is a framework for collecting valid and reliable data to test the hypotheses and answer the research questions.

Quantitative research design is the standard experimental method of most scientific disciplines. These experiments are sometimes referred to as true science, and use traditional mathematical and statistical means to measure results conclusively. They are most commonly used by physical scientists, although social sciences, education and economics have been known to use this type of research. It is the opposite of qualitative research. Quantitative experiments all use a standard format, with a few minor inter-disciplinary differences, of generating a hypothesis to be proved or disproved. This hypothesis must be provable by mathematical and statistical means, and is the basis around which the whole experiment is designed. Randomization of any study groups is essential, and a control group should be included, wherever possible. A sound quantitative design should only manipulate one variable at a time, or statistical analysis becomes cumbersome and open to question. Ideally, the research should be constructed in a manner that allows others to repeat the experiment and obtain similar results.