Guns and Suicide: An American Epidemic

by Michael D. Anestis

The majority of gun deaths in the United States are suicide deaths, and the majority of suicide deaths are gun deaths. Most people are unaware that suicide, at nearly 43,000 deaths per year, is more common than homicide and other widely publicized tragedies. And yet, suicide is typically absent from discussions of gun violence. As such, the national conversation on gun violence is inadequate and unrelated to the majority of gun deaths in this country...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190675063
• ISBN13: 9780190675066
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"