Download PDF by Thomas Gabor: Confronting Gun Violence in America

By Thomas Gabor

This publication severely examines the hyperlink among weapons and violence. It weighs the price of weapons for self-protection opposed to the antagonistic results of gun possession and carrying. It additionally analyses the function of public opinion, the second one modification to the united states structure, and the firearms and foyer in impeding efforts to avoid gun violence.

Confronting Gun Violence in America explores options to the gun violence challenge in the USA, a rustic the place ninety humans die from gunshot wounds on a daily basis. The wide-range of ideas assessed comprise: a countrywide gun licensing procedure; common heritage assessments; a ban on military-style guns; higher regulatory oversight of the gun undefined; using applied sciences, corresponding to the personalization of guns; baby entry prevention; repealing legislation that inspire violence; altering violent norms; fighting retaliatory violence; and techniques to rebuild American groups. This obtainable and incisive ebook could be of significant curiosity to scholars and researchers in criminology and sociology, to boot as practitioners and policy-makers with an curiosity in gun possession and violence.

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