Private Guns, Public Health, New Ed.

On an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill over ninety people and wound about three hundred more; yet such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence. Private Guns, Public Health reveals the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem—an approach that emphasizes prevention over punishment and that has successfully reduced the rates of injury and death from infectious disease, car accidents, and tobacco consumption.

Hemenway fair-mindedly and authoritatively outlines a policy course that would significantly reduce gun-related injury and death, pointing us toward a solution.



 

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• The Second Amendment: A Biography
• While We Were Sleeping
• Confronting Gun Violence in America
• Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis
• Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America
• Guns Down: How to Defeat the NRA and Build a Safer Future with Fewer Guns
• "Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People": And Other Myths About Guns and Gun Control
• Guns across America: Reconciling Gun Rules and Rights