Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Introduction : why guns?; The gun question; Emerging issues; Opposing camps; Trends in firearm-related offending; Combat ready; The spectre of the gun : historical and cultural perspectives; Social and historical discourses; Civilisation, authority and violence; A conquest of violence or a new form of power?; Firearms and social control in the UK; The Bill of Rights; Concealed weapons and armed responses?; Civilian disarmament and social change; The making of the American 'gun culture'; Firearms and violence; The politics of guns.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book presents the first substantial analysis of the social and political reactions to events such as the Dunblane disaster in 1996 and also examines many of the wider issues relating to gun control in the United Kingdom.
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Title
Gun culture or gun control.
International Standard Book Number
0415170877
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Dunblane Massacre, Dunblane, Scotland, 1996.
Firearms and crime-- Scotland-- Dunblane.
Firearms and crime-- United States.
Firearms-- Law and legislation-- Great Britain.
Gun control-- Great Britain.
Gun control-- United States.
Armes à feu-- Contrôle-- États-Unis.
Armes à feu-- Contrôle-- Grande-Bretagne.
Armes à feu-- Droit-- Grande-Bretagne.
Armes à feu et criminalité-- Écosse-- Dunblane.