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Title

Gun violence in America : the struggle for control / Alexander DeConde.

Author

DeConde, Alexander.

Publication

Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2001.

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Description

394 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Few social issues have produced more exaggerated claims and contention among Americans than the struggle to control gun violence. Fueling the emotional fire in debates between firearms groups such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) and gun-control advocates is the dispute over the importance of guns in American culture. Is the fondness for firearms truly part of a venerable American tradition, one to be observed with very few limits? In this fascinating inquiry, Alexander DeConde delves into the myths and politics regarding gun-keeping, as well as the controversies over gun use, crime, and policing from the early days of the republic to the present."--Jacket.

Subject

• Gun control > United States
• Violent crimes > United States
• Firearms ownership > United States
• United States > Politics and government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-377) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Origins and precedents -- 2. The colonial record -- 3. To the second amendment -- 4. Militias, duels, and gun keeping -- 5. A gun culture emerges -- 6. Reconstruction, cheap guns, and the Wild West -- 7. The National Rifle Association -- 8. Urban control movements -- 9. Gun-roaring twenties -- 10. Direct Federal controls -- 11. Guns flourish, opposition rises -- 12. Control Act of 1968 -- 13. Control groups on the rise -- 14. Gun lobby glory years -- 15. A wholly owned NRA subsidiary? -- 16. The struggle nationalized -- 17. The Brady Act -- 18. School shootings and gun shows -- 19. Clinton v. the NRA -- 20. Summing up.

ISBN

1555534864 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00054821^

OCLC

45618242

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library