Gun Culture or Gun Control?: Firearms and Violence: Safety and Society

by Peter Squires

Book Overview

n 1996 the shooting and killing of 16 young children in a Dunblane primary school provoked wide reaching parliamentary reform to British gun laws. Within months virtually all privately owned handguns had been outlawed. Gun Culture or Gun Control? presents the first substantial analysis of the social and political reactions to events in Dunblane and also examines many of the wider issues relating to gun control in the United Kingdom.

Rigorously...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415170877
• ISBN13: 9780415170871
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"