Point Blank Guns and Violence in America

Name: Point Blank Guns and Violence in America
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ISBN: 9780202307626

ISBN-10: 020230762X

ISBN-13: 9780202307626

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gary Kleck

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Gun violence and control are issues of vital importance, but most gun debates leave their participants with their biases intact. Written deliberately to counter an atmosphere of hysteria and extremism, 'Point Blank' offers logical argument supported by empirical information.

Book details

List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/31/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.85" wide x 9.41" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English




Ideology, politics, and propaganda



Ownership and uses of guns



Searching for "bad" guns : the focus on special gun types



Guns and self-defense



Guns and violent crime



Guns and suicide



Firearms accidents



Types of gun regulation



Public opinion and the bases of support for gun control



The impact of gun control on violence rates



Conclusions



Production-based estimates of the gun stock (chapter 2)



Survey-based estimates of the gun stock (chapter 2)



Substitution of long guns for handguns



Alternate estimates of the number of defensive uses of guns (chapter 4)



Legal classification and counting of defensive homicides (chapter 4)



Technical problems in using national crime survey incident files data (chapter 5)