Chronicles the history of the debate over the Second Amendment, describing the arguments of gun control and gun rights advocates and discussing events that have affected legislation.
Discusses gun violence as it relates to teens, provides a look at the gun control debate, and offers strategies to help young people give up guns and use other problem solving techniques.
Examines the history of the gun control debate in America through primary documents including speeches, letters, congressional testimony, court decisions, government reports, biographical accounts, position papers, statutes, and news stories.
Contains over twenty essays in which criminologists, law enforcement officers, researchers, and gun-control advocates and opponents present their arguments about private ownership of handguns, the Constitutional right to bear arms, self-defense, and gun violence.
Presents a comprehensive history of firearms and their technology over the centuries beginning with the use of crossbows in ancient China and the introduction of flammable power around the first century AD to the sophisticated weaponry of the twenty-first century.
Presents opposing arguments on gun control, including gun availability and its influence on society, the constitutionality of gun control, effective measures in reducing gun violence, and the effects of a gun ban on society.
Examines the link between guns and violence in the United States, as well as the debate over gun control, comparing firearms violence in the U.S. with patterns in other countries; examining general patterns of gun ownership and use; and discussing existing, and possible future gun control legislation.
