Gun Violence

By Stefan Kiesbye

Book Overview

Editor Stefan Kiesbye has compiled personal accounts, case studies, statistical articles, and overviews on the hot-button topic of gun violence. With increasing incidents occurring on American soil, young readers need to form healthy and intelligent opinions as early as possible. Readers are presented with more than one viewpoint across several topics. They will evaluate such things as whether data about guns is being suppressed, and whether gun laws fail to inhibit gun violence. Is the U.S. a culture that is obsessed with guns? Is gun violence linked to aggressive behavior? Questions like these are answered. Personal accounts include Wade Meredith's account of what it feels like to get shot, and Donna Dees-Thomases' account of how gun violence turned a mother into a gun control activist. Provide your students with the right information that will allow them to develop smart, safe viewpoints.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0737739460
• ISBN13: 9780737739466
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 15 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 10 to 12