Gun Control and Gun Rights: Understanding the Debate over Gun Violence

By Philip G. Gallman

About 31,000 people die in the United States each year through the misuse of firearms, including 19,000 suicides, 11,000 murders and 500 accidents. The usual response to the carnage is to demand stricter gun control or even outright confiscation of guns in civilian hands. However, current efforts using gun control are not reducing gun violence. The author argues that usual efforts to reduce gun violence are ineffective because they are misguided and misinformed.The author argues that gun-control efforts are misguided because there is scant evidence that reducing the number of firearms in the hands of civilians would reduce gun violence and, further, there are so many guns in civilian hands that significant reduction in numbers is all but impossible. Efforts are misinformed because many people on both sides of the debate do not understand either the laws relating to firearms and their use or firearm technology. Hence they are perceived by the opposing side as being either ignorant of the true issues or outright fraudulent. This book identifies and discusses the true issues associated with reducing violence via gun control. Gun Control and Gun Rights; Understanding the Debate over Gun Violence cuts through the extremist rhetoric on both sides of the gun debate. It focuses on areas where lack of understanding provides fertile ground for misunderstanding and misdirection:* Gun violence in the United States and Abroad* Relevant Firearm Technology* The Assault Weapons Ban* United States Federal Firearm Laws* Use of Deadly Force for Self-Defense Laws This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the facts behind both sides of the gun control debate.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1542566932
• ISBN13: 9781542566933
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"