Gun violence

Gun violence / Noël Merino, book editor.

This collection of articles, pro and con on gun violence, debates whether gun violence is a serious problem, the factors that contribute to gun violence, the extent to which gun ownership regulations reduce gun violence, and what should be done to reduce gun violence.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Merino, Noël (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farmington Hills, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, [2015]
Series:Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Gun control > United States.
Violent crimes > United States.
Firearms and crime > United States.
Firearms ownership > Government policy > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Gun violence in the United States is a public health concern / Scott R. Kegler and James A. Mercy
  • Gun violence in the United States has declined / D'Vera Cohn, Paul Taylor, Mark Hugo Lopez, Catherine A. Gallagher, Kim Parker, and Kevin T. Maass
  • Young guns : how gun violence is devastating the millennial generation / Chelsea Parsons and Anne Johnson
  • There is a problem with politics, not guns, in the United States / Michael Schaus
  • There is an epidemic of school shootings / Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense In America and Mayors Against Illegal Guns
  • Gun violence is decreasing and school shootings are rare / Dewey G. Cornell
  • America's exceptional gun culture / Elias Groll
  • The drug war is a cause of inner-city gun violence / Trevor Burrus
  • The guns of Chicago : and the safe sidewalks of New York / Heather Mac Donald
  • Mental illness has proven itself a risk factor for gun violence / Ann Coulter
  • Guns--not the mentally ill--kill people / Abby Rapoport
  • Background checks need to be expanded and strengthened / Josh Horwitz
  • The "40 percent" myth / John Lott
  • Allowing armed citizens reduces gun violence / Wayne Allyn Root
  • Allowing armed citizens does not reduce gun violence / Mark Follman
  • The private gun sale loophole needs to be closed / Mayors Against Illegal Guns
  • Treating personal transfers like retails sales would violate rights / Dave Kopel
  • Gun regulations are necessary and allowed under the Second Amendment / Mark Nuckols
  • Gun regulations are ineffective and threaten the Second Amendment / Robert A. Levy
  • More law enforcement, not more regulation, reduces gun violence / Steve Chapman
  • Shame on U.S. : how many tiny coffins do we need next time? / Mike Lupica
  • ABC : but 'assault weapons' bans just make guns look different! / Charles C.W. Cooke.

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