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Point blank : guns and violence in America Cover Image Book Book

Point blank : guns and violence in America

Kleck, Gary 1951- (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0202304191 :
  • Physical Description: print
    xv, 512 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. --
  • Publisher: New York, NY : A. de Gruyter, c1991.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-505) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 1. Ideology, politics, and propaganda -- 2. Ownership and uses of guns -- 3. Searching for "bad" guns : the focus on special gun types -- 4. Guns and self-defense -- 5. Guns and violent crime -- 6. Guns and suicide -- 7. Firearms accidents -- 8. Types of gun regulation -- 9. Public opinion and the bases of support for gun control -- 10. The impact of gun control on violence rates -- 11. Conclusions -- App. 1. Production-based estimates of the gun stock (chapter 2) -- App. 2. Survey-based estimates of the gun stock (chapter 2) -- App. 3. Substitution of long guns for handguns -- App. 4. Alternate estimates of the number of defensive uses of guns (chapter 4) -- App. 5. Legal classification and counting of defensive homicides (chapter 4) -- App. 6. Technical problems in using national crime survey incident files data (chapter 5).

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