Stopping Power: Why 70 Million Americans Own GunsPulpless.Com, 1994 - 324 sider Did you know that every 13 seconds one of America's 70 million gun owners uses a firearm in defense against a criminal? That American women use handguns 416 times a day in defense against rapists, which is a dozen times more often than rapists use a gun? That a gun kept in the home for protection is 216 times as likely to be used in defense against a criminal than it is to cause the death of an innocent victim in that household? These are just a few of the surprises this book has in store for anyone whose belief in gun control is based on TV news or popular magazines. Award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and journalist, J. Neil Schulman, challenges the misinformation that pundits ranging from network anchors to ill-informed doctors are promoting about guns. Especially for the reader who doesn't own a gun and has never even considered buying one, Stopping Power should be an eye-opener. |
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Foreword by Don B Kates Jr | 11 |
Preface | 17 |
the LA Times OpEds | 28 |
Joining Forces Against a Common Foe | 34 |
If Gun Laws Work Why Are We Afraid? | 40 |
Do Guns Do More Harm or More Good ? | 50 |
Q A on Gun Defenses | 56 |
How Does Japan Get That Low Crime Rate Anyway? | 67 |
English Usage Expert Interprets Second Amendment | 151 |
Some Notes and Discussion on the Second Amendment | 160 |
A Rather OneSided Debate on Gun Rights | 179 |
Was Waco Warranted? | 207 |
Instead of Crime and Punishment | 221 |
Ripostes And Counters | 235 |
The Mark of Kane is on Firearms Reporting | 251 |
What It Takes to Get Me to Put on a Yarmulke | 266 |
Its Time to Take A Second Look at Murder | 85 |
Remarks to the LA Board of Police Commissioners 71691 | 91 |
Guns Are Still Equalizers | 108 |
The Thrill of My Life | 117 |
Cease Fire Ed Asner | 279 |
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