A Scourge of Guns - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Scourge of Guns write by Michael T. Klare. This book was released on 1996. A Scourge of Guns available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Weapon of Choice
Weapon of Choice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Weapon of Choice write by Fredrick E. Ayres. This book was released on 2020-10-27. Weapon of Choice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How ordinary Americans, frustrated by the legal and political wrangling over the Second Amendment, can fight for reforms that will both respect gun owners’ rights and reduce gun violence. Efforts to reduce gun violence in the United States face formidable political and constitutional barriers. Legislation that would ban or broadly restrict firearms runs afoul of the Supreme Court’s current interpretation of the Second Amendment. And gun rights advocates have joined a politically savvy firearm industry in a powerful coalition that stymies reform. Ian Ayres and Fredrick Vars suggest a new way forward. We can decrease the number of gun deaths, they argue, by empowering individual citizens to choose common-sense gun reforms for themselves. Rather than ask politicians to impose one-size-fits-all rules, we can harness a libertarian approach—one that respects and expands individual freedom and personal choice—to combat the scourge of gun violence. Ayres and Vars identify ten policies that can be immediately adopted at the state level to reduce the number of gun-related deaths without affecting the rights of gun owners. For example, Donna’s Law, a voluntary program whereby individuals can choose to restrict their ability to purchase or possess firearms, can significantly decrease suicide rates. Amending Red Flag statutes, which allow judges to restrict access to guns when an individual has shown evidence of dangerousness, can give police flexible and effective tools to keep people safe. Encouraging the use of unlawful possession petitions can help communities remove guns from more than a million Americans who are legally disqualified from owning them. By embracing these and other new forms of decentralized gun control, the United States can move past partisan gridlock and save lives now.
Confronting Gun Violence in America
Confronting Gun Violence in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confronting Gun Violence in America write by Thomas Gabor. This book was released on 2016-09-12. Confronting Gun Violence in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book critically examines the link between guns and violence. It weighs the value of guns for self-protection against the adverse effects of gun ownership and carrying. It also analyses the role of public opinion, the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, and the firearms industry and lobby in impeding efforts to prevent gun violence. Confronting Gun Violence in America explores solutions to the gun violence problem in America, a country where 90 people die from gunshot wounds every day. The wide-range of solutions assessed include: a national gun licensing system; universal background checks; a ban on military-style weapons; better regulatory oversight of the gun industry; the use of technologies, such as the personalization of weapons; child access prevention; repealing laws that encourage violence; changing violent norms; preventing retaliatory violence; and strategies to rebuild American communities. This accessible and incisive book will be of great interest to students and researchers in criminology and sociology, as well as practitioners and policy-makers with an interest in gun ownership and violence.
Guns, Traumas and Exceptionalism: America in the Twenty-First Century
Guns, Traumas and Exceptionalism: America in the Twenty-First Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guns, Traumas and Exceptionalism: America in the Twenty-First Century write by Howard Epstein. This book was released on 2017-01-26. Guns, Traumas and Exceptionalism: America in the Twenty-First Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the most damaging gun crime of all? It's pretending that gun-control laws, on their own, are ever going to achieve anything. They didn't work at Columbine, they didn't work at Virginia Tech, at Sandy Hook or at the scenes of any other rampage-killings and, alone, they are not the answer to those outrages that may yet come along.Horrifically, American students are three times more likely to die by the bullet in the schools and colleges in America than those in all such places of learning of the rest of the world combined. And the workplace death-rate in the USA is twice that of the rest of the world combined.As gun control alone plainly does not work, it is time for something new. It is time to improve gun control regulation by addressing the problem of gun crime through gun culture. Not only does gun-crime cause trauma, but also traumas cause gun-crime. And America has been battered by more traumas than any comparable nation. In this book, I set out to show how twenty national traumas, in the 80 years from the Wall Street Crash to the Credit Crunch, have battered the American psyche and mixed in a toxic way with the gun, an icon in US society, to unleash almost unchecked violence. I explain how America got to be so violent, and the better place it can get to by dealing with gun crime as a matter of gun culture. I suggest two new paradigms for alleviating the problem - two highly-practical routes for reducing gun-crime that need to be considered, debated and adopted. In this way, I argue, the tide can be turned. America is exceptional in many more good ways than bad, and has the vitality and the strength to achieve redemption.
Guns, Traumas and Exceptionalism
Guns, Traumas and Exceptionalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guns, Traumas and Exceptionalism write by Howard David Epstein. This book was released on 2016-08-12. Guns, Traumas and Exceptionalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the most damaging gun crime of all? It's pretending that gun-control laws, on their own, are ever going to achieve anything. They didn't work at Columbine, they didn't work at Virginia Tech, at Sandy Hook or at the scenes of any other rampage-killings and, alone, they are not the answer to those outrages that may yet come along. Horrifically, American students are three times more likely to die by the bullet in the schools and colleges in America than those in all such places of learning of the rest of the world combined. And the workplace death-rate in the USA is twice that of the rest of the world combined. As gun control alone plainly does not work, it is time for something new. It is time to improve gun control regulation by addressing the problem of gun crime through gun culture. Not only does gun-crime cause trauma, but also traumas cause gun-crime. And America has been battered by more traumas than any comparable nation. In this book, I set out to show how twenty national traumas, in the 80 years from the Wall Street Crash to the Credit Crunch, have battered the American psyche and mixed in a toxic way with the gun, an icon in US society, to unleash almost unchecked violence. I explain how America got to be so violent, and the better place it can get to by dealing with gun crime as a matter of gun culture. I suggest two new paradigms for alleviating the problem - two highly-practical routes for reducing gun-crime that need to be considered, debated and adopted. In this way, I argues, the tide can be turned. America is exceptional in many more good ways than bad, and has the vitality and the strength to achieve redemption. (c) Howard David Epstein - London August 2016
