Lethal Logic: Exploding the Myths That Paralyze American Gun Policy

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Overview

“Guns don’t kill people; people kill people.”

“When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”

“An armed society is a polite society.”

Who hasn’t heard these engaging assertions, time and time again? Burned into the national consciousness by years of targeted, disciplined messaging by the National Rifle Association and others, they are just a few of the bumper-sticker slogans that have defined the gun control debate in America. Long ridiculed by gun control advocates, they are the first words that come to mind for most Americans when the gun issue is discussed.

This is the first book both to acknowledge the profound and deadly impact of the gun lobby’s bumper-sticker logic on the gun control debate and to systematically expose the misguided thinking at the core of the pro-gun slogans. Indeed, the author contends that the gun lobby’s remarkable success in blocking passage of lifesaving gun laws is the result, in large part, of its relentless and effective use of these simple and resonant messages. Their persuasive power has been a largely ignored influence on the current politics of gun control, in which the gun lobby wields unprecedented power in the Republican Party, while many Democratic Party leaders see the policy benefits of stronger gun laws as not worth the political risk of standing up to the NRA. The book contends that the current political stalemate over guns will never be broken until the pro-gun slogans are exposed as the cleverly disguised fallacies that they are.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781597973564
  • Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
  • Publication date: 6/30/2009
  • Pages: 282
  • Sales rank: 1,164,852
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Dennis A. Henigan is the Vice President for Law and Policy at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence and Founder of its Legal Action Project. For twenty years, he has been a leading advocate for stronger gun laws, appearing dozens of times on national television shows, including 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Nightline, Larry King Live, and Dateline NBC. Henigan coauthored Guns and the Constitution: The Myth of Second Amendment Protection for Firearms in America (Aletheia Press, 1995).

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Prologue 1

1 "Guns Don't Kill People. People Kill People." 13

2 "When Guns Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Guns." 37

3 "But What You Really Want ... " 75

4 "An Armed Society Is a Polite Society." 105

5 "We Don't Need New Gun Laws. We Need to Enforce the Laws We Have." 139

6 "Is Budweiser Responsible for Drunk Drivers?" 159

7 "From My Cold, Dead Hands ... " 189

Epilogue: From Lethal Logic to Sensible Solutions 211

Notes 219

Selected Bibliography 249

Index 261

About the Author 267

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  • Posted April 7, 2010

    I was looking for fresh information but got stale platitudes.

    I was hoping that Mr. Henigan would have a new and interesting take on the gun issue, but this work could have been put together by an intern Googling old Brady Campaign press releases. He consistently ignores superb academic work on gun laws and safety done by a number of prominent criminologists and economists as well as the CDC in order to rehash the tired old idea that somehow more gun control will provide more safety. He uses cherry-picked and often distorted statistics to 'prove' his case, while sidestepping the actual question and ignoring or dismissing any contrary data.

    A good example of this is his gun suicide argument. He 'debunks' arguments that gun availability does not affect overall suicide by stating that 92% of attempted gun suicides are completed, which sounds horrifying until you realize that he never addressed the actual question at all. If he had bothered to look at the research, there are a number of unbiased studies which show that availability of firearms may change suicide methods, but it does not affect overall suicide rates.

    Overall I would have to say that this book is a severe disappointment, coming as it does from an esteemed public interest lawyer.

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