See also: pro-control

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Etymology

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From pro- +‎ control.

Adjective

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procontrol (comparative more procontrol, superlative most procontrol)

  1. Supportive of greater or stricter control, especially
    1. (politics) Supportive of greater government control over society, authoritarian or supportive of greater authoritarianism.
      • 2014, Tapio Lappi-Seppälä et al., “Cross-Comparative Perspectives on Global Homicide Trends”, in Crime and Justice, volume 43, number 1, page 190:
        Conservative procontrol values (including importance of crime prevention and support for extensive police powers) correlate positively with lethal violence. Social trust, in turn, correlates inversely and strongly with homicide... Southern states have, on average, more than double the homicide rate (5.8 per 100,000 population a year) of that in the Northeast...
      • 2018, Tapio Lappi-Seppälä, "American Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective: Explaining Trends and Variation in the Use of Incarceration", Exceptionalism in Crime and Punishment, §5:
        The US respondents were asked to give their views of the assertions, "There should be a gun in every home," and "Police should use whatever force is necessary to maintain law and order." These may be interpreted as measures of "pro-control" attitudes. For OECD countries, a rough counterpart may be... defined as authoritarian versus democratic values.
    2. (politics) Synonym of protectionist: supportive of export controls over international trade, especially for political ends or to prevent technology transfer.
    3. (politics) Synonym of antigun: supportive of greater gun control, typically inclusive of opposition to gun rights.
      • 2013, NRA Institute for Legal Action, "Emily Gets Her Gun!"
        Miller links together a mountain of facts to dismantle the pro-control arguments concocted by the president and his allies, and calculatingly fed to the American people by many of her peers in the Fourth Estate.
      • 2017, Gary Kleck, Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control, page 442:
        If procontrol opinion really is as genuine and as strong as survey responses indicate, why is it that procontrol groups cannot mobilize large numbers of voters to call or write to their elected representatives to urge them to vote in a procontrol direction, while the NRA routinely manages to do this?... The available evidence supports the following conclusions: (1) most people have no real opinion or only very weak or unstable opinions on specific narrow gun control proposals; (2) most people have only very general opinions on broad issues like gun control rather than specific, strongly held opinions on narrow issues, and (3) the few who do have strong, stable opinions in the gun control area are mostly anticontrol, because most of them are gun owners.

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