The Resource Guns down : how to defeat the NRA and build a safer future with fewer guns, Igor Volsky
Guns down : how to defeat the NRA and build a safer future with fewer guns, Igor Volsky
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- Summary
- The United States has more mass shootings, gun suicides, and nonfatal gun injuries than any other industrialized country in the world. Volsky believes that in order to significantly and permanently reduce gun deaths the United States, we need a bold new approach: a drastic reduction of the 390 million guns already in circulation and a new movement dedicated to a future with fewer guns. He suggests bold reforms that have succeeded in reducing gun violence worldwide, and offers a road map for achieving transformative change to increase safety in our communities
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxv, 206 pages
- Contents
-
- Preface: Shooting guns in the desert surprise you
- Introduction: Why you should give up your guns
- It's far too easy to buy a gun
- Guns kill young people
- Guns kill people of color
- Guns kill women and children
- We are killing ourselves with guns
- How I became a fewer-guns activist
- The Founding Fathers wanted a country with fewer guns
- The NRA: birth of a lobby
- How the NRA weaponized the Second Amendment
- Why the NRA is successful
- How the NRA channels hatred into political success
- We know how to reduce gun violence
- The new Second Amendment compact
- We must not overcriminalize gun owners
- End gun manufacturer immunity
- Increase oversight and regulation of gun manufacturers
- Regulate all gun dealers
- Reduce the number of guns in the United States
- A license to kill
- Insure your piece
- End armed intimidation
- Unleash the power of science to save lives
- Reducing gun violence in Chicago
- How to eliminate mass shootings
- The solutions in the compact have worked in the rest of the world
- Gun owners support a world with fewer guns
- How you can build a future with fewer guns
- Learning from the fight for marriage equality
- A strategy for building a world with fewer guns
- We will win
- Appendix: How to talk to gun people and win
- Isbn
- 9781620973196
- Label
- Guns down : how to defeat the NRA and build a safer future with fewer guns
- Title
- Guns down
- Title remainder
- how to defeat the NRA and build a safer future with fewer guns
- Statement of responsibility
- Igor Volsky
- Subject
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- trueCrime and guns
- Firearms and crime
- Firearms and crime -- United States
- Firearms ownership
- Firearms ownership -- United States
- Gun control
- trueGun control
- Gun control -- United States
- trueGun industry and trade
- trueGun ownership
- trueGuns
- truePolitical activists
- truePolitics and culture
- Politics and culture -- United States
- Public safety
- truePublic safety
- Public safety -- United States
- trueUnited States
- United States
- trueUnited States -- Politics and government
- trueViolent crimes
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The United States has more mass shootings, gun suicides, and nonfatal gun injuries than any other industrialized country in the world. Volsky believes that in order to significantly and permanently reduce gun deaths the United States, we need a bold new approach: a drastic reduction of the 390 million guns already in circulation and a new movement dedicated to a future with fewer guns. He suggests bold reforms that have succeeded in reducing gun violence worldwide, and offers a road map for achieving transformative change to increase safety in our communities
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- DLC
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- 1986-
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- Volsky, Igor
- Dewey number
- 363.330973
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Gun control
- Firearms ownership
- Firearms and crime
- Public safety
- Firearms and crime
- Firearms ownership
- Gun control
- Public safety
- United States
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- how to defeat the NRA and build a safer future with fewer guns
- Label
- Guns down : how to defeat the NRA and build a safer future with fewer guns, Igor Volsky
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- volume
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- Contents
- Preface: Shooting guns in the desert surprise you -- Introduction: Why you should give up your guns -- It's far too easy to buy a gun -- Guns kill young people -- Guns kill people of color -- Guns kill women and children -- We are killing ourselves with guns -- How I became a fewer-guns activist -- The Founding Fathers wanted a country with fewer guns -- The NRA: birth of a lobby -- How the NRA weaponized the Second Amendment -- Why the NRA is successful -- How the NRA channels hatred into political success -- We know how to reduce gun violence -- The new Second Amendment compact -- We must not overcriminalize gun owners -- End gun manufacturer immunity -- Increase oversight and regulation of gun manufacturers -- Regulate all gun dealers -- Reduce the number of guns in the United States -- A license to kill -- Insure your piece -- End armed intimidation -- Unleash the power of science to save lives -- Reducing gun violence in Chicago -- How to eliminate mass shootings -- The solutions in the compact have worked in the rest of the world -- Gun owners support a world with fewer guns -- How you can build a future with fewer guns -- Learning from the fight for marriage equality -- A strategy for building a world with fewer guns -- We will win -- Appendix: How to talk to gun people and win
- Control code
- on1074278720
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xxv, 206 pages
- Isbn
- 9781620973196
- Lccn
- 2018052117
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1074278720
- Label
- Guns down : how to defeat the NRA and build a safer future with fewer guns, Igor Volsky
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface: Shooting guns in the desert surprise you -- Introduction: Why you should give up your guns -- It's far too easy to buy a gun -- Guns kill young people -- Guns kill people of color -- Guns kill women and children -- We are killing ourselves with guns -- How I became a fewer-guns activist -- The Founding Fathers wanted a country with fewer guns -- The NRA: birth of a lobby -- How the NRA weaponized the Second Amendment -- Why the NRA is successful -- How the NRA channels hatred into political success -- We know how to reduce gun violence -- The new Second Amendment compact -- We must not overcriminalize gun owners -- End gun manufacturer immunity -- Increase oversight and regulation of gun manufacturers -- Regulate all gun dealers -- Reduce the number of guns in the United States -- A license to kill -- Insure your piece -- End armed intimidation -- Unleash the power of science to save lives -- Reducing gun violence in Chicago -- How to eliminate mass shootings -- The solutions in the compact have worked in the rest of the world -- Gun owners support a world with fewer guns -- How you can build a future with fewer guns -- Learning from the fight for marriage equality -- A strategy for building a world with fewer guns -- We will win -- Appendix: How to talk to gun people and win
- Control code
- on1074278720
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xxv, 206 pages
- Isbn
- 9781620973196
- Lccn
- 2018052117
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1074278720
Subject
- trueCrime and guns
- Firearms and crime
- Firearms and crime -- United States
- Firearms ownership
- Firearms ownership -- United States
- Gun control
- trueGun control
- Gun control -- United States
- trueGun industry and trade
- trueGun ownership
- trueGuns
- truePolitical activists
- truePolitics and culture
- Politics and culture -- United States
- Public safety
- truePublic safety
- Public safety -- United States
- trueUnited States
- United States
- trueUnited States -- Politics and government
- trueViolent crimes
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