Behind the passionate debate over gun control and armed crime lurk
assumptions about the link between guns and violence. Indeed, the
belief that more guns in private hands means higher rates of armed
crime underlies most modern gun control legislation. But are these
assumptions valid?
Investigating the complex and controversial issue of the real
relationship between guns and violence, Joyce Lee Malcolm presents
an incisive, thoroughly researched historical study of England,
whose strict gun laws and low rates of violent crime are often
cited as proof that gun control works. To place the private
ownership of guns in context, Malcolm offers a wide-ranging
examination of English society from the Middle Ages to the late
twentieth century, analyzing changing attitudes toward crime and
punishment, the impact of war, economic shifts, and contrasting
legal codes on violence. She looks at the level of armed crime in
England before its modern restrictive gun legislation, the
limitations that gun laws have imposed, and whether those measures
have succeeded in reducing the rate of armed crime.
Malcolm also offers a revealing comparison of the experience in
England experience with that in the modern United States. Today
Americans own some 200 million guns and have seen eight consecutive
years of declining violence, while the English--prohibited from
carrying weapons and limited in their right to self-defense have
suffered a dramatic increase in rates of violent crime.
This timely and thought-provoking book takes a crucial step in
illuminating the actual relationship between guns and violence in
modern society.
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