Taylor & Francis
Gun Culture or Gun Control? - Paperback / softback
Edition: 1st Edition
Subjects: Society,
Society & culture: general
ISBN13: 9780415170871
Published: 21 Sep 2000
Format - Paperback / softback
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Gun Culture or Gun Control? - Paperback / softback
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n 1996 the shooting and killing of 16 young children in a Dunblane primary school provoked wide reaching parliamentary reform to British gun laws. Within months virtually all privately owned handguns had been outlawed. Gun Culture or Gun Control?presents the first substantial analysis of the social and political reactions to events in Dunblane and also examines many of the wider issues relating to gun control in the United Kingdom
Rigorously comparative throughout, Peter Squires provides a non-partisan exploration of the differences between attitudes to firearms and their control in Britain and in the United States. Amongst the topics the author considers are
* the social history of firearms on both sides of the atlanti* the differing policy directions adopted in Britain and the US* media coverage of the gun questio* firearms and policin* the future of the gun in society.
Rigorously comparative throughout, Peter Squires provides a non-partisan exploration of the differences between attitudes to firearms and their control in Britain and in the United States. Amongst the topics the author considers are
* the social history of firearms on both sides of the atlanti* the differing policy directions adopted in Britain and the US* media coverage of the gun questio* firearms and policin* the future of the gun in society.
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