Restricting handguns : the liberal skeptics speak out / edited by Don B. Kates, Jr. ; foreword by Frank Church

Published: [Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.] : North River Press, [1979]
Copyright Date: ©1979
Physical Description: xiii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: Kates, Don B., 1941-

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Contents

Toward a history of handgun prohibition in the United States / Don B. Kates, Jr. -- Comparative cross-cultural studies / Colin Greenwood and Joseph Magaddino -- Critiquing the case for handgun prohibition / Mark K. Benenson and David T. Hardy -- Handgun prohibition and homicide : a plausible theory meets the intractible [sic] facts / Mark Benenson and Don B. Kates, Jr. -- Handgun availability and the social harms of robbery : recent data and some projections / David T. Hardy and Don B. Kates, Jr. and Self-defense, handgun ownership, and the independence of women in a violent, sexist society / Carol Ruth Silver and Don B. Kates, Jr. -- The Second Amendment as a restraint on state and federal firearms restrictions / David T. Hardy -- The necessity of access to firearms by dissenters and minorities whom government is unwilling or unable to protect / John Salter and Don B. Kates, Jr. -- The potentialities for civil liberties violations in the enforcement of handgun prohibition / David T. Hardy and Kenneth L. Chotiner.

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0884270335
0884270343 (pbk.)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-237).

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