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Gun control. --- Firearms --- Guns --- Small arms --- Weapons --- Shooting --- Control of guns --- Firearms control --- Gun control --- Handgun control --- Safety measures. --- Government policy

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Gun control --- Firearms --- Homicide --- Femicide --- Offenses against the person --- Violent deaths --- Control of guns --- Firearms control --- Handgun control --- Evaluation. --- Law and legislation --- Government policy

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n 1996 the shooting and killing of 16 young children in a Dunblane primary school provoked wide reaching parliamentary reform to British gun laws. Within months virtually all privately owned handguns had been outlawed. Gun Culture or Gun Control? presents the first substantial analysis of the social and political reactions to events in Dunblane and also examines many of the wider issues relating to gun control in the United Kingdom.Rigorously comparative throughout, Peter Squires provides a non-partisan exploration of the differences between attitudes to firearms and their con

Gun control --- Firearms --- Firearms and crime --- Guns --- Small arms --- Weapons --- Shooting --- Control of guns --- Firearms control --- Handgun control --- Crime and firearms --- Crime --- Law and legislation --- Government policy --- Firearms and violence --- Dunblane Massacre, Dunblane, Scotland, 1996.

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"In the United States more than thirty thousand deaths each year can be attributed to firearms. This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned. The author's thorough and objective account shows the complexities of the issue, which are so often reduced to bumper-sticker slogans, and suggests ways in which gun violence in this country can be reduced. Briggs profiles not only protagonists in the national gun debate but also ordinary people, showing the ways guns have become part of the lives of many Americans. Among them are gays and lesbians, women, competitive trapshooters, people in the gun-rights and gun-control trenches, the NRA's first female president, and the most successful gunsmith in American history. Balanced and painstakingly unbiased, Briggs's account provides the background needed to follow gun politics in America and to understand the gun culture in which we are likely to live for the foreseeable future."--

HISTORY / Military / Weapons. --- LAW / Constitutional. --- Firearms --- Violent crimes --- Firearms ownership --- Gun control --- Control of guns --- Firearms control --- Handgun control --- Crimes, Violent --- Crimes of violence --- Crime --- Violence --- Gun ownership --- Ownership of firearms --- Law and legislation --- History. --- Government policy --- United States.

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Up in Arms provides an illustrative and timely window onto the ways in which guns shape people’s lives and social relations in Texas. With a long history of myth, lore, and imaginaries attached to gun carrying, the Lone Star State exemplifies how various groups of people at different historical moments make sense of gun culture in light of legislation, political agendas, and community building. Beyond gun rights, restrictions, or the actual functions of firearms, the book demonstrates how the gun question itself becomes loaded with symbolic firepower, making or breaking assumptions about identities, behavior, and belief systems. Contributors include: Benita Heiskanen, Albion M. Butters, Pekka M. Kolehmainen, Laura Hernández-Ehrisman, Lotta Kähkönen, Mila Seppälä, and Juha A. Vuori.

Firearms ownership --- Firearms owners --- Gun control --- Social aspects --- Control of guns --- Firearms control --- Handgun control --- Firearms --- Gun owners --- Owners of firearms --- Persons --- Gun ownership --- Ownership of firearms --- Government policy --- Law and legislation