Private Guns, Public Health, New Ed.

Private Guns, Public Health, New Ed.
ISBN-10
0472123254
ISBN-13
9780472123254
Category
Medical
Pages
394
Language
English
Published
2017-08-07
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Author
David Hemenway

Description

On an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill over ninety people and wound about three hundred more; yet such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence. Private Guns, Public Health reveals the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem—an approach that emphasizes prevention over punishment and that has successfully reduced the rates of injury and death from infectious disease, car accidents, and tobacco consumption. Hemenway fair-mindedly and authoritatively outlines a policy course that would significantly reduce gun-related injury and death, pointing us toward a solution.

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