On an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill almost eighty people and wound nearly three hundred more; yet such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence. Private Guns, Public Health reveals the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem–an approach that emphasizes prevention over punishment and that has successfully reduced the rates of injury and death from infectious disease, car accidents, and tobacco consumption. Hemenway fair-mindedly and authoritatively outlines a policy course that would significantly reduce gun-related injury and death, pointing us toward a solution.
ISBN: | 9780472037018 |
Publication date: | 30th August 2017 |
Author: | David Hemenway |
Publisher: | The University of Michigan Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 394 pages |
Genres: |
Medicine: general issues Politics and government Weapons and equipment |