The Great American Gun Debate

Two of the nation's leading authors on the issue of guns and violence give iconoclastic perspectives on a number of hot button gun issues--and the way guns have been demonized in professional medical literature. The authors sort out fact from fiction on the issue of guns and violence.

PART ONE: Gun Control & Crime Rates

1

(50)

Chapter 1 Introduction

3

(28)

Kates

Chapter 2 Problematic Arguments for Banning Handguns

31

(20)

Kates

Lattimer

Boen

PART TWO: Media Bias & Public Opinion

51

(98)

Chapter 3 Media Bias: Gun Control, Assault Weapons, Cop-Killer Bullets, the Goetz Case, and Other Alarms in the Night

53

(40)

Kleck

Chapter 4 Public Opinion: The Effects of Extremist Discourse on the Gun Debate

93

(30)

Kates

Chapter 5 Sagecraft: Bias and Mendacity in the Public Health Literature on Gun Usage

123

(26)

Kates

Lattimer

Boen

PART THREE: Guns & Self-Defense

149

(120)

Chapter 6 The Frequency of Defensive Gun Use

151

(42)

Kleck

Chapter 7 Keeping, Carrying, and Shooting Guns for Self-Protection

193

(30)

Kleck

Chapter 8 The Nature of Defensive Gun Use and the Deterrence and Displacement of Crime

223

(46)

Kleck

PART FOUR: Constitutional Issues

269

(25)

Chapter 9 The Second Amendment and the Ideology of Self-Protection

271

(23)

Kates

Index

294

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The Great American Gun Debate

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