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The citizen's guide to gun control, Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins

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The citizen's guide to gun control, Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins

Language

eng

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The citizen's guide to gun control

Oclc number

15221681

Responsibility statement

Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins

Summary

Examines the link between guns and violence in the United States, as well as the debate over gun control, comparing firearms violence in the U.S. with patterns in other countries; examining general patterns of gun ownership and use; and discussing existing, and possible future gun control legislation

Table Of Contents

Part I. Firearms and Violence -- America's Gun Violence Compared: A Tale of Two Cities -- Firearms and Assault: "Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People" -- Firearms and Robbery: Your Money or Your Life -- Guns for Self-Defense: The Armed Citizen -- The Guns Used in Crime -- Accidents, Suicide, and Guns -- Part II. Gun Ownership and Use -- America as a Gun Culture -- Patterns of Gun Ownership and Use -- A Domestic Arms Race? Gun Sales and Use in the 1960s and 1970s -- Gun Ownership and Gun Control: On the Needle-in-the-Haystack and the Deadly Long Gun -- Gun Ownership as Victimless Crime -- Part III. Strategies of Gun Control -- Strategies of Firearms Control -- State and Local Gun Laws -- Federal Gun Laws -- Part IV. Perspectives on the Future -- Ideology, Crime Control, and Guns -- The Problem of Assault Firearms -- The Future of Federal Gun Laws: Two Scenarios -- Social Change, Public Attitudes, and the Future of Handgun Control -- Short-Term Costs, Long-Term Benefits

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Guide to gun controlGun control

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