Every handgun is aimed at you
Subtitle: the case for banning handguns
By: Josh Sugarmann
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781565846296
Subjects: Gun control; Pistols
Description: "Every Handgun Is Aimed at You demonstrates that banning handguns is the only effective way to reduce gun violence in our society. The leading research and statistics on handguns and handgun violence in America - summarized here in easily-accessible graphs and tables - point inescapably to that simple conclusion. In step-by-step fashion, Josh Sugarmann dismantles the alternatives to banning handguns.

In doing so, he provides the clearest roadmap yet for bringing about real change in our nation's gun policy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Handguns 101: a primer; title: History of the handgun; title: Handguns and suicide; title: Handguns and self-defense; title: Handguns and crime; title: Handguns and women; title: Handguns and youth; title: Handguns and minorities; title: Handguns in public; title: The case for banning handguns; title: Afterword.