By Gregg Lee Carter
Thoroughly up to date and enormously improved from its unique version, this three-volume set is the go-to entire source at the criminal, social, mental, political, and public well-being features of weapons in American life.
• 450 alphabetically prepared entries, together with a hundred new for this version, overlaying key matters (suicide, games and gun violence, firearm harm data) and occasions (workplace shootings, the Virginia Tech massacre)
• 102 specialist members from all educational fields excited about learning the explanations and results of gun violence
• A chronology of pivotal moments and controversies within the historical past of firearm possession and use within the United States
• An exhaustive bibliography of print and on-line assets overlaying all elements of the examine of weapons within the United States
• Appendices on federal gun legislation, nation gun legislation, and professional- and anti-gun-control organizations
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