Shots Fired : : Gun Violence in the United States / / Howard Rahtz.

Mass killings. Gang violence. Street crimes. Suicides. Accidental shootings. The United States is enduring a literal epidemic of gun violence. Howard Rahtz, drawing on decades of experience as a police officer all too familiar with the horrors that guns can cause, delves deeply into the nature and i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (222 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Gun Violence in the United States
  • 2 The Right to Keep and Bear Arms
  • 3 Firearms and Violence
  • 4 Black Market Guns
  • 5 The Crime Triangle: Ability to Kill
  • 6 The Crime Triangle: Opportunity to Kill
  • 7 The Crime Triangle: Desire to Kill
  • 8 Rampage Killings
  • 9 Daily Homicides
  • 10 The Police Response
  • 11 Moving Left of Bang
  • 12 Do Something!
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Book