gun control

A handbook about the facts of the Second Amendment and why the right to bear arms should remain.

Explains why the right to bear arms has always been a part of the American identity and why Americans have resisted gun control.

Gun violence claims 31,000 U.S. lives each year. Johns Hopkins University convened more than 20 of the world's leading experts on gun violence and policy to summarize relevant research and recommend policies that are both constitutional and have broad public support.

Contains articles that provide varying viewpoints on the issue of gun control, discussing the power of states to regulate firearms, the meaning of the Second Amendment, the liability of gun manufacturers for negligence, and maintaining the rights of the Second Amendment.

Contains fourteen articles that provide opposing viewpoints on issues related to gun control, debating the questions of whether people should have the right to own guns, what measures will reduce gun violence and crime, and can gun control prevent school violence.

Presents seventeen essays on both sides of the gun control issue, which discuss such aspects as crime reduction, concealed weapons laws, handguns and assault-type rifles, gun shows, and firearm education.

A compilation of facts and statistics on gun control in the U.S., discussing the history of the right to bear arms, firearms laws and regulations, related court rulings, guns and crime, injuries and fatalities, guns and youth, public attitudes, and gun control laws.

Presents pros and cons regarding gun control, discussing such aspects as the history of gun ownership and access to guns in America.

Traces the historical origins of provisions of the Second Amendment: the right to keep and bear arms, and the maintenance of a militia.