Gun violence in America : the struggle for control / Alexander DeConde.
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2001Description: 394 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 1555534864 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Gun control -- United States | Violent crimes -- United States | Firearms ownership -- United States | United States -- Politics and governmentLOC classification: HV7436 | .D43 2001Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library | 363.330/DeC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844400045072 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-377) and index.
Origins and precedents -- The colonial record -- To the second amendment -- Militias, duels, and gun keeping -- A gun culture emerges -- Reconstruction, cheap guns, and the Wild West -- The National Rifle Association -- Urban control movements -- Gun-roaring twenties -- Direct Federal controls -- Guns flourish, opposition rises -- Control Act of 1968 -- Control groups on the rise -- Gun lobby glory years -- A wholly owned NRA subsidiary? -- The struggle nationalized -- The Brady Act -- School shootings and gun shows -- Clinton v. the NRA -- Summing up.
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