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Can gun control work? / James B. Jacobs.
- Title
- Can gun control work? / James B. Jacobs.
- Author
- Jacobs, James B.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
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- Description
- xvi, 287 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Few schisms in American life run as deep or as wide as the divide between gun rights and gun control advocates where the debate is largely defined by forceful rhetoric rather than substantive analysis. This text explores the gun-control options of the most heavily armed democracy in the world.
- Series Statement
- Studies in crime and public policy
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Studies in crime and public policy
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-278) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Dissecting the gun problem -- Existing gun controls -- Impediments to more gun controls -- The politics of the Brady Law -- What the Brady Law says -- Holes in the Brady Law -- Evaluating the Brady Law -- Closing the gun show and secondary market loophole -- Comprehensive licensing and registration -- Prohibition and disarmament -- Other gun control strategies -- Creating gun-free public spaces -- Conclusion: the "problem" reconsidered.
- ISBN
- 0195145623 (cloth)
- LCCN
- ^^2002020133
- OCLC
- 49011291
- SCSB-10381569
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library