The Resource How America got its guns : a history of the gun violence crisis, William Briggs
How America got its guns : a history of the gun violence crisis, William Briggs
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The item How America got its guns : a history of the gun violence crisis, William Briggs represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
- "In the United States more than thirty thousand deaths each year can be attributed to firearms. This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned. The author's thorough and objective account shows the complexities of the issue, which are so often reduced to bumper-sticker slogans, and suggests ways in which gun violence in this country can be reduced. Briggs profiles not only protagonists in the national gun debate but also ordinary people, showing the ways guns have become part of the lives of many Americans. Among them are gays and lesbians, women, competitive trapshooters, people in the gun-rights and gun-control trenches, the NRA's first female president, and the most successful gunsmith in American history. Balanced and painstakingly unbiased, Briggs's account provides the background needed to follow gun politics in America and to understand the gun culture in which we are likely to live for the foreseeable future."--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- ix, 339 pages
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Contents
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- Guns in America
- The Advantage of Being Armed
- Number Games
- Twenty-seven words
- Guns in American Lives
- Interpreting the Second Amendment
- Magic Never Made a Gun
- The Other Amendment
- Playing by the Rules
- Colfax and Cruikshank
- Enforcement!
- A Century Passes
- Carry, Stand and Defend
- The Court Speaks
- Guns and the Mind
- The Court Speaks Again
- A Year Passes
- Reducing Gun Violence
- Isbn
- 9780826358134
- Label
- How America got its guns : a history of the gun violence crisis
- Title
- How America got its guns
- Title remainder
- a history of the gun violence crisis
- Statement of responsibility
- William Briggs
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In the United States more than thirty thousand deaths each year can be attributed to firearms. This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned. The author's thorough and objective account shows the complexities of the issue, which are so often reduced to bumper-sticker slogans, and suggests ways in which gun violence in this country can be reduced. Briggs profiles not only protagonists in the national gun debate but also ordinary people, showing the ways guns have become part of the lives of many Americans. Among them are gays and lesbians, women, competitive trapshooters, people in the gun-rights and gun-control trenches, the NRA's first female president, and the most successful gunsmith in American history. Balanced and painstakingly unbiased, Briggs's account provides the background needed to follow gun politics in America and to understand the gun culture in which we are likely to live for the foreseeable future."--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1949-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Briggs, William
- Dewey number
- 363.330973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HV7436
- LC item number
- .B75 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- United States.
- Gun control
- Firearms ownership
- Violent crimes
- Firearms
- Label
- How America got its guns : a history of the gun violence crisis, William Briggs
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-322) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- Contents
- Guns in America -- The Advantage of Being Armed -- Number Games -- Twenty-seven words -- Guns in American Lives -- Interpreting the Second Amendment -- Magic Never Made a Gun -- The Other Amendment -- Playing by the Rules -- Colfax and Cruikshank -- Enforcement! -- A Century Passes -- Carry, Stand and Defend -- The Court Speaks -- Guns and the Mind -- The Court Speaks Again -- A Year Passes -- Reducing Gun Violence
- Control code
- ocn961408930
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- ix, 339 pages
- Isbn
- 9780826358134
- Lccn
- 2016033852
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780826358134
- (OCoLC)961408930
- Label
- How America got its guns : a history of the gun violence crisis, William Briggs
- Note
- Source of cataloging data: WCP
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-322) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Guns in America -- The Advantage of Being Armed -- Number Games -- Twenty-seven words -- Guns in American Lives -- Interpreting the Second Amendment -- Magic Never Made a Gun -- The Other Amendment -- Playing by the Rules -- Colfax and Cruikshank -- Enforcement! -- A Century Passes -- Carry, Stand and Defend -- The Court Speaks -- Guns and the Mind -- The Court Speaks Again -- A Year Passes -- Reducing Gun Violence
- Control code
- ocn961408930
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- ix, 339 pages
- Isbn
- 9780826358134
- Lccn
- 2016033852
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780826358134
- (OCoLC)961408930
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