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Amid a growing consensus that the staggering toll of gun violence in the United States is an urgent public health issue, the Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health has convened experts on gun policy and violence from the United States and selected other countries to summarize relevant research and its implications for policymakers and concerned citizens. Legal scholars weigh in on the constitutionality of recommended policies, and researchers present new data on public support for a wide array of policies designed to reduce gun violence. Collected for the first time in one volume, this reliable empirical research and legal analysis will inform the policy debate by helping lawmakers and opinion leaders identify the policy changes that are most likely to reduce gun violence in the United States.
Researchers draw on new and existing studies on US gun policies to demonstrate both the weaknesses of current federal gun policies and the efficacy of various state laws designed to reduce firearm availability to high-risk groups. By analyzing scientific and legal data, the contributors provide evidence in support of enhanced regulation and oversight of licensed gun dealers, background checks for private sales, and purchaser licensing. Lessons from bans of assault weapons and of large-capacity magazines are considered, as is the promise of "smart guns", which could be fired only by authorized users. Compelling case studies from Australia, Scotland, and Brazil demonstrate effective policy responses to gun violence that have led to significant reductions in gun-related deaths. The book concludes with data on public support for strengthening gun laws and Second Amendment considerations.
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Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis Edited by Daniel W. Webster and Jon S. Vernick
"Reducing Gun Violence in America Guns" is a comprehensive collection of rigorous essays/studies with the purpose of providing evidence-based research on how to reduce gun violence in America. This book takes an impassive approach to the very incendiary topical issue of violence and gun policy. Driven by the massacre of Newtown, the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research organized a gun-debate summit and edited this timely book. This excellent reference quality book is 320 pages long and is composed of nineteen chapters and broken out into the following six parts: 1. Gun Policy Lessons from the United States; Keeping Guns from High-Risk Individuals, 2. Making Gun Laws Enforceable, 3. Gun Policy Lessons from the United States; High-Risk Guns, 4. International Case Studies, 5. Second Amendment, and 6. Public Opinion on Gun Policy.
Positives:
1. A much needed evidence-based book on such an incendiary timely topic.
2. An excellent forward by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Does a great job of summarizing seven pragmatic measures to reduce gun violence; three at the legislative level and four at the executive level.
3. The purpose of this book is to share research from more than twenty of the world's top gun-policy experts that would inform important policy. Mission accomplished.
4. This book takes an impassive, scientific approach. The authors do a good job of letting the reader know the limitations of our knowledge.
5. Provides a number of charts to back research. Many of interesting facts and tidbits interspersed throughout the book.
6. Countering misconceptions about gun policy.
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