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There are few issues more explosive than guns. "Guns don't kill people, people kill people", is an often-heard response to calls for firearm control. But are there ways to make guns safer without placing further restrictions on gun owners? Can guns be engineered to reduce the number and severity of injuries? This book is about guns and new solutions for addressing problems they create. Trudy Karlson and Stephen Hargarten, two experts in public health and injury control, show readers how guns are products, designed to injure and kill, and how changes in the design, technology, and marketing of firearms can lead to reductions in the number of injuries and fatalities. Just as innovations in the design and technology of motor
vehicles succeeded in creating safer cars, Karlson and Hargarten
describe how responsible changes to gun products can reduce the
number of serious injuries and fatalities. The injury control
perspective illustrates how the characteristics of guns and
ammunition are associated with their ability to cause injury and
death. It also provides options for how guns can be re-engineered
to ensure a greater degree of safety and protection. Reducing
Firearm Injury and Death teaches basic facts about guns and gun
injuries, and by reframing the problem of firearms as a public
health issue, offers hope for saving lives.
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