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
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.
Twenty Traumas That Shook America
Twenty Traumas That Shook 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 Twenty Traumas That Shook America write by Howard Epstein. This book was released on 2018-09-16. Twenty Traumas That Shook America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Twenty National Traumas have battered America in the 80 years between the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the nadir of the Credit Crunch in 2009. Some were non-violent, but many did involve violence and the worst of them - the 30 (some say 90) deaths a day caused by firearms - is a continuing trauma.No comparable nation or federation of nations (eg Europe, Russia) has suffered anything like that, and in none of them is gun crime so prevalent and damaging.Everyone knows there is an exceptional level of gun crime in America. Many believe that gun control alone is the answer. This work examines gun culture, and explains why that may be the way to approach gun crime - how America got to be so violent. This holds out a big promise and a big challenge - but America can make it work, for America is exceptional in many more good ways than bad.And seeing guns through the prism of gun culture and national trauma may create an even more exceptional America.
From My Cold Dead Hands
From My Cold Dead Hands - 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 From My Cold Dead Hands write by Michael R. Weisser. This book was released on 2018. From My Cold Dead Hands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book covers the two arguments made about guns in the United States today. On the one hand, pro-gun advocates claim that the benefit of gun ownership as protection from crime outweighs the risks of intentional and accidental gun injuries. On the other hand, most gun violence researchers claim that the risks of intentional and accidental gun injuries outweigh the benefits of owning a gun. Based on original surveys of gun owners and non-gun owners, primary data from medical and law-enforcement sources, summaries of noted research from both perspectives and personal experiences culled from more than 50 years in the gun business, this book explains why gun control advocates and gun rights advocates are unable to find common ground to develop regulatory policies acceptable to both sides.The Introduction and Chapter One define gun violence in numeric and demographic terms where gun violence occurs, who are the perpetrators and the victims, and the accuracy of the data is the numerical data used by both sides to support their solutions to the problem. Chapter Two compares gun violence in the United States to gun violence in other countries and challenges the usual argument connecting our rate of gun violence to the high per capita rate of gun ownership. Chapter Three covers the development of the regulatory system, particularly the Gun Control Act of 1968, and discusses the results of a regulatory philosophy that seeks to control the behavior of gun owners rather than the design of guns, the latter being typical of every other developed country. Chapter Four compares gun control strategies of the gun rights and gun control movements, and Chapter Five looks at strategies to control gun violence committed by unlawful gun owners. Chapter Six analyzes the activities of the regulatory agency and the ATF, and Chapter Seven looks at how the gun making industry operates in ways that create both regulatory opportunities and difficulties. Chapter Eight is a discussion about the 2nd Amendment, in particular how both liberal and conservative explanations about the meaning of the amendment misread its most important point. Chapter Nine and the Conclusion are based on national surveys conducted for this book that highlight the differences between gun owners and non-gun owners regarding proper regulations, control of violence and gun risk.This book is not an attempt at advocacy. It presents a comprehensive summary of relevant research and analysis of new data to give a comprehensive view of gun violence so that advocates on both sides can be better informed about the issues which need to be addressed.
Twenty Traumas That Shaped America
Twenty Traumas That Shaped 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 Twenty Traumas That Shaped America write by Howard Epstein. This book was released on 2018-04-26. Twenty Traumas That Shaped America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Twenty National Traumas have battered America in the 80 years between the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the nadir of the Credit Crunch in 2009. Some were non-violent:-∎ two major fiscal crises ∎ two presidential impeachments ∎ a 444 day crisis over 52 diplomat hostages;but many did involve violence:-∎ three significant political assassinations (the two Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King) ∎ three major wars (World War II, Korea and Vietnam) and two other cusp-of-war incidents (the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Cuban Missile Crisis -- almost leading to global nuclear holocaust) ∎ the gunning down of students at Kent State and other universities ∎ years of urban rioting ∎ numerous school and college massacres; and ∎ almost certainly, most damaging to the national psyche, 9/11 - itself exceedingly cruel and very recent;and the worst of them - the 30 (some say 90) deaths a day caused by firearms - is a continuing trauma.No comparable nation or federation of nations (eg Europe, Russia) has suffered anything like that, and in none of them is gun crime so prevalent and damaging.Everyone knows there is an exceptional level of gun crime in America. Sadly, from the President down, all seem to believe that gun control alone is the answer. This work examines gun culture, and explains why that may be the way to approach gun crime. This holds out a big promise and a big challenge - but America can make it work, for America is exceptional in many more good ways than bad.And seeing guns through the prism of gun culture may create an even more exceptional America.
