Guns: Who Should Have Them? - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879759585 ISBN 13: 9780879759582

Publisher: Prometheus, 1995

Synopsis

Going beyond the emotional appeals and stilted rhetoric on gun control, this carefully detailed and superbly argued studytackles the problems in a straightforward, intelligent manner. Each chapter, written by leading experts in law, criminology, medicine, psychiatry, and feminist studies, addresses a major issue in the gun-control debate. The conclusions are difficult to deny: "gun control" is a red herring that has been deflecting attention from the true causes of crime, namely, the breakdown of the family; failed social welfare programs; and increasing hopelessness among male youths, especially in our troubled inner cities.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Regardless of your views on the issue, this book forces you to think about how much a difference gun control will make in reducing crime in America. Kopel offers a number of common-sense alternatives which may offer far greater promise of reducing crime and violence.
--Gene Guerrero, ACLU

Whether you're an advocate or an opponent of gun control, this engaging, thoroughly research book presents innovative solutions to one of America's most pressing social problems.
--Richard Neeley, retired Chief Justice,
West Virginia Supreme Court. Partner, Neeley & Hunter, Charleston, West Virginia

This collection of essays by America's leading authorities on firearms policy will help to reinvigorate and rationalize a public debate that has become more hysterical and less factual with time.
--Dan Polsby, Northwestern University School of Law

About the Author:

David B. Kopel is Research Director at the Independence, an Associate Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute, and Adjunct Professor Advanced Constitutional Law at Denver University, Sturm College of Law.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prometheus
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0879759585
• ISBN 13: 9780879759582
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 482
• Editor: Kopel David B.