Rampage nation : securing America from mass shootings /

In the past decade, no individual act of violence has killed more people in the United States than the mass shooting. This well-researched, forcefully argued book answers some of the most pressing questions facing our society: Why do people go on killing sprees? Are gun-free zones magnets for deadly...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Klarevas, Louis, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2016.
Subjects:
Gun control > United States.
Firearms ownership > United States.
Violent crimes > United States > Prevention.
Mass murder > United States > Prevention.
Armes à feu > Contrôle > États-Unis.
Armes à feu > Possession > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Firearms ownership
Gun control
Mass murder
Violent crimes
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Problem ; Sandy Hook
  • The beginning of wisdom
  • A growing threat
  • Part 2. Probe ; Unstable, angry, armed men
  • No place is safe
  • Guns kill, some more than others
  • Part 3. Prescription ; Breaking the trinity
  • The bad man's awe
  • The new normal
  • Appendix. A theoretical profile of Seung Hui Cho : from the perspective of a forensic behavioral scientist / Roger L. Depue
  • Postscript.

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