Title Gun culture or gun control : firearms, violence and society / Peter Squires.

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New York : Routledge, 2000.

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Internet	WORLD WIDE WEB E-BOOK EBSCO	Downloadable
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Description	1 online resource
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The spectre of the gun -- The making of the American 'gun culture' -- Discovery and construction -- Tragedy, aftermath and politics -- Taking stock of the gun control arguments.
Summary	Annotation Gun Culture or Gun Control presents the first substantial analysis of the social and political reactions to major events relating to gun control. Rigorously comparative throughout, Peter Squires provides a nonpartisan exploration of the differences between attitudes to firearms and their control in Britain and in the United States.
Note	Print version record.
Local Note	EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text
Subject	Dunblane Massacre (Scotland : 1996) (OCoLC)fst01709800
	Gun control -- Great Britain.
	Firearms -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.
	Firearms and crime -- Scotland -- Dunblane.
	Gun control -- United States.
	Firearms and crime -- United States.
	Dunblane Massacre, Dunblane, Scotland, 1996.
	Firearms and crime. (OCoLC)fst00925627
	Firearms -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst00925588
	Gun control. (OCoLC)fst00949382
	Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
	Scotland -- Dunblane. (OCoLC)fst01221130
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1996
Other Form:	Print version: Squires, Peter, 1958- Gun culture or gun control. New York : Routledge, 2000 (DLC) 00032185
ISBN	0415170877 (paperback)
	9780415170871
	0415170877
	0415170869

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