Peter Squires

Gun Culture or Gun Control? (eBook, ePUB)

Firearms and Violence: Safety and Society

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents the first substantial analysis of the social and political reactions to events such as the Dunblane disaster in 1996 and also examines many of the wider issues relating to gun control in the United Kingdom.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134697021
• Artikelnr.: 38256725

Autorenporträt

Peter Squires

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Why guns? 2. The Spectre of the Gun: Historical and
cultural perspectives 3. The Making of the American 'Gun Culture' 4.
Discovery and Construction: Media coverage of the 'gun question' 5.
Tragedy, Aftermath and Politics 6. Taking Stock of the Gun Control
Arguments 7. Conclusion: Culture and ricochets