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What everyone needs to knowLichtman, Allan J.
Summary: "A radical case for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment as the only way to control gun violence in America There's an average of one mass shooting per day in the United States. Given the ineffectiveness of the gun control lobby, it's time for a strategy with spine. In Repeal the Second Amendment, Allan J. Lichtman has written the first book that uses history, legal theory and up-to-the-minute data...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344.7305 LICHemenway, David
Summary: On an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill over ninety people and wound about three hundred more; yet such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence. Private Guns, Public Health reveals the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem—an approach that emphasizes prevention over punishment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This look at how gun violence affects us today, how we got there and what we can do to reduce it features contributions from over a dozen experts and policymakers in the field.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 TOOSpitzer, Robert J.
Summary: In vast swathes of America, the sacredness of the Second Amendment has become a political third rail, never to be questioned. Gun rights supporters wear tri-cornered hats, wave the stars and stripes, and ask what would have happened if the revolutionaries had been unarmed when the British were coming. They have had great success in conflating unfettered gun ownership with the Founding Fathers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 COOErdozain, Dominic
Summary: "This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation's fathers did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms-and that this intentional distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy. Hundreds of lives are lost to firearms every day in America. The cost is more than the numbers-it is also the fear, the anxiety, the dread of public spaces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Grillo, Ioan
Summary: Presents a searing investigation into the role of the drug trade in the black market for firearms, both within the U.S. and across the U.S.-Mexican border.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 GRIHogg, David
Summary: "From two survivors of the Parkland, Florida, shooting comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement. On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his fourteen-year-old sister, Lauren, went to school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, like any normal Wednesday. That day, of course, the world changed. By the next morning, with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018