| Description |
341 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Contemporary issues |
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Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.)
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| Contents |
Pt. One : a culture in cvonflict -- 1. America as a gun culture -- 2. Social problems and sagecraft : gun control as a case in point -- 3. The good outweighs the evil -- 4. The great American gun war -- Pt. two : Controlling crime and violence -- 5. Second thoughts about gun control -- 6. The great American gun war : some policy implications of the felon study -- 7. The relationship between gun ownership levels and rates of violence in the United States -- 8. The effect of gun availability on violent crime patterns -- 9. Policy lessons form recent gun control research -- 10. On the needle-in-the-haystack and the deadly long gun -- 11. Firearms and assault : " guns don't kill people, people kill people" -- 12. Handguns in the twenty-first century -- 13. Comparisons among nations and over time -- 14. Handgun regulations, crime, assaults, and homicide : a tale of two cities -- Pt. three : guns for self-defense : protection or menance -- 15. How well does the handgun protect you and your family? -- 16. Protection or peril? An analysis of firearm-related deaths in the home -- 17. The epidemiology of firearm deaths among residents in California -- 18. Defensive gun ownership as a response to crime -- 19. The law abiding gun owner as domestic and acquaintance murderer -- 20. Crime control through the private use of armed force -- 21. When children shoot children -- 22. Gun accidents -- Pt. four : Interpreting the second amendment : culture conflict revealed -- 23. The embarrassing second amendment -- 24. Guns, cowboys, Philadelphia Mayors, and civic republicanism : on Sanfords Levinson's "The Embarrassing Second Amendment" |
| Analysis |
Firearms |
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Gun control |
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Overseas item |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-341) |
| Subject |
Gun control -- United States.
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| Author |
Nisbet, Lee.
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| LC no. |
90009138 |
| ISBN |
0879756187 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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