Armed and Considered Dangerous is a book about "bad guys" and
their guns. But Wright and Rossi contend that for every suspected
criminal who owns and abuses a firearm, a hundred or more average
citizens own guns for sport, for recreation, for self-protection,
and for other reasons generally regarded as appropriate or
legitimate. Armed and Considered Dangerous is the most ambitious
survey ever undertaken of criminal acquisition, possession, and use
of guns.
There are vast differences between the average gun owner and the
average gun-abusing felon, but the analyses reported here do not
suggest any obvious way to translate these differences into gun
control policies. Most policy implications drawn from the book are
negative in character: this will not work for this reason, that
will not work for that reason, and so on. When experts are asked,
"Okay, then what will work?" they usually fall back on the old
warhorses of poverty, the drug problem, or the inadequate resources
of the criminal justice system, and otherwise have little to say.
This is not a failure of social science. It simply asks more of the
data than the data were ever intended to provide.
Several of Wright and Rossi's findings have become "coin of the
realm" in the gun control debate, cited frequently by persons who
have long since forgotten where the data came from or what their
limitations are. Several other findings, including many that are
important, have been largely ignored. Still other findings have
been superseded by better and more recent data or rendered
anachronistic by intervening events. With the inclusion of a new
introduction detailing recent statistics and updated information
this new edition of Armed and Considered Dangerous is a rich source
of information for all interested in learning about weapon behavior
and ownership in America.
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