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Lott, John R.

Summary: From myths about mass public shootings to suicides to gun ownership rates and crime to gun free zones, Lott addresses the claims you frequently hear in the media and explains what is wrong with those claims.

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Publisher / Publication Date: [Amazon KDP] 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 LOT

Lott, John R.

Summary: Does allowing people to own or carry guns deter violent crime? Or does it cause more citizens to harm each other? Wherever people happen to fall along the ideological spectrum, their answers are all too often founded upon mere impressionistic and anecdotal evidence. In this direct challenge to conventional wisdom, legal scholar John Lott presents the most rigorously comprehensive data analysis...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344.73 LOT

Younge, Gary

Summary: "On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning Guardian journalist Gary Younge tells the stories of the lives lost during the course of a single day in theUnited States. It could have been any day, but Younge has chosen November 23, 2013. From Jaiden Dixon (9), shot point-blank by his mother's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 YOU

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.6 YOU

McWhirter, Cameron

Summary: "The epic history of the AR-15 rifle, America's most controversial weapon"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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Summary: The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in 2008 that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to bear arms added fuel to the ongoing national debate about guns. Thousands of people die from gun shots every year, but some argue that the prevalence of guns in the United States actually serves to deter crime. Does gun control keep guns away from criminals, or,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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