The Gun Control Debate : You Decide Book

	Acknowledgments	11
	Introduction	13
Pt. I	Gun Control as Kulturkampf	23
1	America as a Gun Culture	29
2	Social Problems and Sagecraft: Gun Control as a Case in Point	38
3	The Great American Gun War	55
4	Ideology, Politics, and Propaganda	75
Pt. II	Gun Control in the age of (Mis)Information	95
5	Get Rid of the Damned Things	108
6	Guns in America: What Must Be Done	112
7	The New Age of Anxiety	117
8	Say Yes to Serious Gun Control	120
9	Media Bias: Gun Control, Assault Weapons, Cop-Killer Bullets, the Goetz Case, and Other Alarms in the Night	122
10	Why Americans fear the Wrong Things	151
11	Risky Business: Vividness, Availability, and the Media Paradox	167
Pt. III	Gun Availability and Violence	175
12	Understanding and Preventing Violence	182
13	Lethal Violence in America	215
14	The Technology of Personal Violence	243
15	Guns and Violence: An Interpretive Review of the Field	274
Pt. IV	The Armed Citizen more Violence or Less	303
16	Handgun Regulations, Crime, Assaults, and Homicide	315
17	Rates of Homicide, Suicide, and Firearm Related Death among childern	326
18	International Comparisons and the Killias Research	331
19	Guns in the Household	335
20	Gun Ownership as a Risk Factor for Homicide in the Home	340
21	Case Control Research on Homicidal Behavior	355
22	The Myth That Murderers Are Ordinary Gun Owners	360
23	Nonfatal and Fatal Firearm-Related Injuries	378
24	The Medical/Public Health Literature on Guns and Violence	382
25	Children and Guns	391
26	Self-Defense	410
27	Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun	421
28	A Tribute to a View I Have Opposed	450
29	Easing Concealed Firearm Laws: Effects on Homicide in Three States	452
30	Gun Decontrol: When Florida Made It Easier to Get Carry Permits	465
31	More Guns, Less Crime	471
Pt. V	The Second Amendment: The American Culture: Wars Revisited	541
32	To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right	543
33	"To Keep and Bear Arms"	563
	Selected Bibliography	575
	Contributors	579