Cook, Philip J.
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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 COOSummary: 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 TOOYounge, 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, Call number: 303.6 YOUHemenway, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 HEMPowell, Joshua L.
Summary: A former member of the NRA discusses the decades-long incompetence at the organization, exposing the intentional toxic messaging in the fight against gun control and detailing how the discord it created allowed the organization to secure the Trump presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2020
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLESpitzer, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 SPISpaceship Media (Organization)
Summary: "Based on an article by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters, the fascinating results of an important nationwide conversation about guns: Can complete strangers representing every point along the political divide engage in civil and productive discourse on the topic of gun control?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2020
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 GUNNugent, Ted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 NUGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 NUGBellesiles, Michael A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.33 BELLichtman, 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 LICSummary: This collection of articles pro and con on gun violence debates whether gun violence is a serious problem, the factors that contribute to gun violence, the extent to which gun ownership regulations reduce gun violence, and what should be done to reduce gun violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364 GUNThomas, Rachael L.
Summary: Readers learn about the #NeverAgain movement, from the history of the right to bear arms to later efforts at gun control, legislation such as the Brady handgun Violence Protection Act and the implementation of background checks, to the school shootings at Columbine, Sandy Hook and Parkland and the creation of #neveragain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2020