Download or read book Accidental Shootings written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Accidental Shootings written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the extent to which certain safety devices on firearms could prevent firearms-related death, specifically a child-proof safety device that automatically engages and a device that indicates whether a gun is loaded. Also presents new information on injuries caused by accidental firearm discharges and on the likely number of individuals injured in accidental shootings, and discusses a range of alternatives for dealing with this public health problem. Charts and graphs.
Download or read book Accidental Shootings written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the extent to which certain safety devices could prevent firearms-related deaths, focusing on the proportion of accidental deaths that might be averted by modifying the firearms with an automatic engaging childproof safety device or with a device that indicates whether a gun is loaded. GAO found that: (1) the safety devices could have prevented about 31 percent of accidental deaths caused by firearms; (2) from 1988 through 1989, the childproof safety device could have prevented 8 percent of 107 accidental firearms-related fatalities, and the loading indicator could have prevented 23 percent of the cases involving injuries or deaths; (3) no data existed indicating the actual number of injuries from accidental discharges of firearms; and (4) from 1988 through 1989, data from 10 cities indicated that there was a ratio of 105 injuries for each death, suggesting that the number of nationwide accidental firearm injuries was substantial and far exceeded the number of fatalities.
Download or read book Guns Gun Control and Elections written by Harry L. Wilson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gun-related violence remains an intractable problem despite a decline in the past decade. Some believe the solution lies in stricter gun control laws while others think these measures would be ineffective or counter-productive. Guns, Gun Control, and Elections examines current gun control policy and explains how it was adopted by discussing the roles and interactions of elected officials, interest groups, political parties, and the public. Original research on media coverage and public opinion as well as a chapter on state policy (Virginia) make the book both informative and accessible. The book focuses on the utility of gun policy, and its discussion of policy impact is grounded in real-world politics. Wilson also highlights the importance of gun control in the Presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 as well as in some U.S. Senate and statewide campaigns.
Download or read book Political Humility written by Blake Roeber and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to change the way we think about politics, talk about politics, and vote. It does this in two ways. First, it shows it’s impossible for a Republican, Democrat, or voter in any political party to possess a significant level of knowledge of facts that would help their party secure or maintain political power. It calls this knowledge “political knowledge” and shows how unfeasible it is for anyone to have it. Second, it explains how we might best be politically engaged, given that we have virtually no political knowledge. To argue that it is impossible for any person to possess a significant amount of political knowledge, the book depends on two empirically verified facts. The first is that we have virtually no means of acquiring political information except by believing what other people say. The second is that, when people start talking about politics, they become highly unreliable. They’re very likely to say false things when voicing political opinions because they employ a belief‐forming process that psychologists call “identity protective cognition.” This is a type of reasoning aimed, not at truth, but at preserving one’s membership in some identity‐defining group. In combination, these two observations cast serious doubt on all of our political beliefs. As the book explains, however, the proper response to this doubt is not to simply avoid politics. Rather the best response is a kind of humble but real engagement with politics that constantly manifests one’s awareness that one is, at best, making educated guesses rather than speaking and acting from knowledge.
Download or read book Gun Violence in America written by Alexander DeConde and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2003 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth analysis of the folklore surrounding gun use and the state of the debate in today's political climate.
Download or read book Lethal Logic written by Dennis A. Henigan and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systematically refutes the bumper-sticker logic of the gun lobby.
Download or read book Police and the Use of Deadly Force written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of Anger Aggression and Violence written by Colin R. Martin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 3036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a detailed overview of the emotional, physical, and social implications of anger, aggression, and violence. The book covers the recognition, diagnosis, and evaluation of these areas, aiming to understand the aetiology of these behavioral features to assist with prevention and cure. The book is divided into eight sections: Placing Aggression, Anger, Aggression and Violence In Context Causes and Precipitation of Anger, Aggression and Violence Features of Anger, Aggression and Violence Anger, Aggression and Violence in Defined Disorders and Conditions Physical Measures of Pathology and Insights: Genetics Physical Measures of Pathology and Insights: Non-Genetic Treatments and Therapies Methods and Techniques Handbook of Anger, Aggression, and Violence will be of use for behavioral scientists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses and doctors, neurologists, health scientists, general practitioners, research scientists and all those interested in altered behavior.
Download or read book Warped Narratives written by Melissa Kate Merry and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of gun policy in the United States are dramatic. Against the backdrop of daily gun violence—which claims more than 33,000 lives per year—gun control groups push for stronger regulations, while gun rights groups resist infringements upon their Second Amendment rights. To illuminate the dynamics of this polarized debate, Warped Narratives examines how and why interest groups frame the gun violence problem in particular ways, exploring the implication of groups’ framing choices for policymaking and politics. Melissa K. Merry argues that the gun policy arena is warped, and that both gun control and gun rights organizations contribute to the distortion of the issue by focusing on atypical characters and settings in their policy narratives. Gun control groups emphasize white victims, child victims, and mass shootings in suburban locales, while gun rights groups focus on self-defense shootings, highlighting threats to “law-abiding” gun owners. In reality, most gun deaths are the result of suicide. Homicides occur disproportionately in urban areas, mainly affecting racial minorities. While warping makes political sense in the short term, it may lead to negative, long-term consequences, including constraints on groups’ ability to build broad-based coalitions and to reduce prospects for compromise. To demonstrate warping, Merry analyzes nearly 67,000 communications by 15 national gun policy groups between 2000 and 2017 collected from blogs, emails, Facebook posts, and press releases. This book is the first to systematically assess the role of race in gun policy groups’ framing and offers the most comprehensive examination to date of interest groups’ presentation of this issue.
Download or read book Gun Control written by Susan Dudley Gold and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of guns and gun control in the United States, relevant laws and legal cases, and the arguments posed by both sides in the debate about how much government control there should be over firearms.
Download or read book Accidental Shootings written by United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PEMD-91-9 Accidental Shootings: Many Deaths and Injuries Caused by Firearms Could Be Prevented
Download or read book Gun Control and Gun Rights written by Andrew J. McClurg and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The benefits of gun ownership -- The costs of firearms -- Philosophical roots of the right to arms and of opposition to the right -- The right to arms in the Second Amendment and state constitutions: cases and commentary -- Guns and identity: race, gender, class, and culture.
Download or read book The Economics of Human Rights written by Elizabeth M. Wheaton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economics plays a key role in human rights issues as decision-makers weigh the incentives associated with choosing how to use scarce resources in the context of committing or escaping human rights violence. This textbook provides an introduction to the microeconomic analysis of human rights utilizing economics as a lens through which to examine social topics including capital punishment, violence against women, asylum seeking, terrorism, child abuse, genocide, and hate. Whether analyzing the decisions made in capital punishment cases, the causes and consequences of genocide, or the impact of terrorist acts on domestic and international decision-making, the science of economics provides tools and a systematic method of analysis and policy recommendation. This key text presents a method for integrating the social sciences of economics and human rights to create new opportunities for the investigation of social issues. Within each chapter, readers gain a fundamental understanding of a specific human rights issue, the decision-makers and the decision-making process involved, and the benefits and costs leading to the decisions. Experts on each issue, drawn from a variety of fields, contribute to each chapter and present first-hand accounts and different perspectives on each issue. The detailed analyses and accounts provided also explore the potential incentives involved in the prevention and termination of human rights violations. Aiming to further economic inquiry and enhance interdisciplinary research, this textbook serves as a multi-purpose guide for a range of readers. Students, researchers, and educators, as well as those working in organizations supporting victims of human rights violations and policy-makers facing human rights challenges, will find this book informative and engaging.
Download or read book Guns and Contemporary Society written by Glenn H. Utter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume set examines various approaches to firearms, including constitutional and legal issues, public health and criminal justice concerns, and perspectives on personal safety and self-defense. Recent mass shootings have led to renewed calls for additional legislation at the state and federal levels to address gun access and control. In this hard-hitting compilation, experts delve into various aspects of firearms in America—from gun control and gun rights to militia movements, to school-related shootings, and to the recent trends in gun ownership by women. Authors from varied backgrounds and viewpoints share their perspectives on the pros and cons of firearm ownership as all of the following: a constitutional right, a key instrument of self-defense, a guarantee of political freedoms, and as a major factor in crime and personal injury. The reference is divided into three volumes. The first volume covers firearm history, legislation, and policy; the second volume explores public opinion, gun ownership trends, international laws, and self-defense; and the third considers popular debates about firearm policy, including concealed carry of firearms, terrorism and the ownership of firearms, background checks for purchasing guns, and stand-your-ground laws. The work concludes with an informed debate on gun policy between Richard Feldman, president of the Independent Firearm Owners, and Paul Helmke, former president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Download or read book Senate Record Votes written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guns Don t Kill People People Kill People written by Dennis A. Henigan and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debunking the lethal logic behind the pervasive myths that have framed the gun control debate The gun lobby’s remarkable success in using engaging slogans to frame the gun control debate has allowed it to block lifesaving gun legislation for decades. But is there any truth to this bumper-sticker logic? Dennis Henigan exposes the mythology and misguided thinking at the core of these pro-gun catchphrases, which continue to have an outsized influence on public attitudes toward guns and gun control. He counters the gun lobby’s messages by weaving together the most compelling current research and insights drawn from the grim reality of deadly gunfire in our homes and communities. Henigan charts a new path toward ending the American nightmare of gun violence. Myths Include: “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.” “An armed society is a polite society.” “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” “Gun control doesn’t work because criminals don’t follow the law.” “Gun manufacturers shouldn’t be responsible for gun crime, any more than Budweiser is responsible for drunk driving.” “We don’t need new gun laws. We just need to enforce the ones we have.” “Gun control is a slippery slope to complete gun bans.”
