Most research portrays the gun violence prevention (GVP) movement as predominantly white, dominated by national Washington DC-based policy organizations and recently by white middle-class women seeking stronger gun regulations, overlooking organizing by people in racially oppressed communities. In contrast, we extend the multi-institutional politics approach to social movements to understand how interlocking political, institutional, and cultural systems of domination shape GVP efforts across communities. We develop the concept multisystem logic to analyze the public communications of 10 GVP groups in Connecticut from 2013 to 2018. We identify an intervention logic seeking to interrupt or prevent community gun violence and a gun reform logic promoting change in laws and policies. For gun scholars, our approach makes clear that the GVP movement is not solely focused on policy change but on social change more broadly. We suggest the applicability of our model to a range of social movements.

大多数研究将预防枪支暴力运动（GVP）描绘成主要是白人，由华盛顿特区的国家政策组织和最近寻求寻求更严格的枪支法规的白人中产阶级妇女所主导，而忽视了种族压迫社区中人们的组织。相比之下，我们将多机构政治方法扩展到社会运动中，以了解相互联系的政治，机构和文化统治体系如何塑造跨社区的GVP努力。我们开发了概念多系统逻辑，以分析2013年至2018年在康涅狄格州的10个GVP团体的公共交流。我们确定了旨在中断或预防社区枪支暴力的干预逻辑和枪支改革逻辑促进法律和政策的变化。对于枪支学者而言，我们的方法清楚地表明，GVP运动不仅专注于政策变革，而且更广泛地关注社会变革。我们建议我们的模型适用于一系列社会运动。