Monica Deza

City University of New York Website

Monica Deza is Assistant Professor of Economics at City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College and at CUNY Graduate Center. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Voting History

Mass violence

Red flag laws, allowing police or family members to petition a court to temporarily remove firearms from a person who presents a danger to themselves or others, would reduce the frequency or severity of mass violence.

Vote Confidence
Strongly Agree 9
Median Survey Vote Median Survey Confidence
Agree 7
Comments

Especially for individuals with mental health issues, firearms could be confiscated during episodes of medication adjustment. Due to the cyclical nature of mental health issues, this would be particularly helpful.

Universal background checks, which would require almost all firearm sales in the US to go through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, would reduce the frequency or severity of mass violence.

Vote Confidence
Strongly Agree 8
Median Survey Vote Median Survey Confidence
Agree 5
Comments

To the extent that there is escalation of violence, background checks could prevent domestic homicides or repeated assaults from escalating to homicide. Mass violence may not be preceded by several incidents.

Increasing the presence of armed security at schools and other public venues would reduce the frequency or severity of mass violence.

Vote Confidence
Agree 7
Median Survey Vote Median Survey Confidence
Neutral/No Opinion 5
Comments

To some extent an armed guard would stop a mass shooter, but that would only occur conditional on the mass shooting already having initiated. Also, given how tumultuous mass shootings would be, the most efficient way to prevent them may not be after they have initiated.