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The Reference Shelf: Guns in America

Table of Contents

Preface




1 Ideology of Guns




Firearms in America: Personal Liberty Versus Collective Responsibility




Gun Debate: Is Price of an Armed America a More Dangerous America?




Most Americans Believe We Should Have Gun Regulation




Gun Research Faces Roadblocks and a Dearth of Data




The Senate Voted on 4 Popular Gun Control Proposals Monday: Here’s Why None of Them Passed




The Gun Fight in Congress




As Congress Returns, Democrats and Republicans Clash Over Gun Control




2 Searching for Balance in Gun Policy




Perspectives on Gun Policy




A Gun Lover’s Case for Gun Control: Not All of Us Believe in the Right to Bear Assault Weapons




How I Got Licensed to Carry a Concealed Gun in 32 States by Barely Trying




It’s Time to Ban Guns. Yes, All of Them




The Gun Control “Terror Gap”: What Is It—and Why Hasn’t Congress Fixed It?




Anti-Gun Hysteria Is Hazardous to Your Health




Four Major Problems with Gun Control Arguments




Inside the Power of the NRA




A Criminologist’s Case Against Gun Control




3 A Global Perspective on Guns




Guns in the Global Sphere




Why America Isn’t the Only Country That Wants Guns for Self-Defense




Why the Gun Lobby Is Winning




US Gun Policy: Global Comparisons




How US Gun Control Compares to the Rest of the World




4 Trends in the Gun Debate




Trends in the Gun Debate




Untangling Gun Violence from Mental Illness




How Racial Prejudice Helps Drive Opposition to Gun Control




The Home-Grown Threat




What Public Health Researchers Want You to Know about Gun Control




Blaming Gun Violence on the Mentally Ill Is Easy, but Ignorant




Fixation on Terrorism Blinds US to Domestic Threats to National Security




How to Prevent Gun Deaths? Where Experts and the Public Agree




5 The Future of Guns in America




Alternative Futures in Gun Policy




Donald Trump’s Big Gun Idea? Literally Stolen from Tim Kaine




Gun Control Advocates Find a Deep-Pocketed Ally in Big Law




Under Donald Trump, What Will Happen on Guns?




Gun Laws and Terrorism: An American Nightmare




Quantifying the Social Cost of Firearms: A New Approach to Gun Control




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