RT Book T1 How America got its guns: a history of the gun violence crisis A1 Briggs, William L. 1949- LA English PP Albuquerque PB University of New Mexico Press YR 2017 ED First edition UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1626515417 AB "In the United States more than thirty thousand deaths each year can be attributed to firearms. This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned. The author's thorough and objective account shows the complexities of the issue, which are so often reduced to bumper-sticker slogans, and suggests ways in which gun violence in this country can be reduced. Briggs profiles not only protagonists in the national gun debate but also ordinary people, showing the ways guns have become part of the lives of many Americans. Among them are gays and lesbians, women, competitive trapshooters, people in the gun-rights and gun-control trenches, the NRA's first female president, and the most successful gunsmith in American history. Balanced and painstakingly unbiased, Briggs's account provides the background needed to follow gun politics in America and to understand the gun culture in which we are likely to live for the foreseeable future."-- CN HV7436 SN 9780826358134 K1 United States K1 gun control : History : United States K1 Firearms ownership : History : United States K1 Violent crimes : History : United States K1 Firearms : Law and legislation : United States K1 LAW / Constitutional K1 HISTORY / Military / Weapons K1 Constitution (United States) K1 Firearms K1 Firearms ownership K1 Law and legislation K1 gun control K1 History K1 Law K1 Violent crimes K1 Military K1 Constitutional K1 Weapons K1 Constitution K1 USA : Schusswaffe : Waffenbesitz : Waffenrecht : Kontrolle : Gesetzgebung : Todesfall : Geschichte 2007-2017