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Armed and Considered Dangerous - A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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Armed and Considered Dangerous - A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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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 Still other findings have been superseded by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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