Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control

by Gary Kleck (Editor)

Overview

This new paperback comprehensively reviews the research evidence on the links between guns, violence, and gun control, and reports results of the author's own research as well. In Targeting Guns, Kleck follows the line of argument and careful statistical inference of his earlier prizewinning volume, Point Blank, while updating the literature reviews and statistical information, and adding two chapters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780202305691
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	12/31/1997
Series:	Social Institutions and Social Change Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	468
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kleck, Gary

Table of Contents

Abbreviations Frequently Used in the Book, Preface, 1 INTRODUCTION, 2 ILLEGITIMATE PRACTICES IN SUMMARIZING RESEARCH ON GUNS AND VIOLENCE, 3 THE OWNERSHIP AND ACQUISITION OF GUNS, 4 SEARCHING FOR BAD GUNS: The Focus on Special Gun Types, 5 GUNS AND SELF-DEFENSE, 6 CARRYING GUNS FOR SELF-PROTECTION, 7 GUNS AND VIOLENT CRIME, 8 GUNS AND SUICIDE, 9 FIREARMS ACCIDENTS, 10 PUBLIC OPINION AND THE BASES OF SUPPORT FOR GUN CONTROL, 11 THE IMPACT OF GUN CONTROL ON VIOLENCE RATES, 12 CONCLUSIONS, References, Name Index, Subject Index

Editorial Reviews

Targeting Guns is an updated and revised version of Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America (Aldine de Gruyter, 1991), which established Gary Kleck as the foremost sociologist doing research on gun control and as a favorite of the American Rifle Association. Targeting Guns will maintain Kleck’s esteemed position in the academic world; however, it will take him down at least a notch or two in the eyes of the ARA and others ardently opposed to gun control—because even though he systematically rebuts most of the research touted by gun-control advocates, he eventually does make a case for some limited forms of gun control.” —Gregg Lee Carter, Social Forces

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