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2/1/2021 2021SP1-CRJS-1005-01: Gun Violence

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Gun Violence "The use of firearms in assault and robbery is the single environmental feature of American Society that is most clearly linked to the extraordinary death rate from interpersonal violence in the United States...

"Current evidence suggests that a combination of the ready availability of guns and the willingness to use maximum force in interpersonal conflict is the most important single contribution to the high U.S. death rate from violence. Our rate of assault [compared with that of other countries] is not exceptional; our death rate from assault is exceptional.

"Our considerable propensity for violent conflict would be a serious societal problem even if gun availability and use were low. But the very fact that the United States is a high-violence environment makes the contribution of gun use to the death toll from violence very much greater... [T]he United States has both a violence problem and a gun problem, and each makes the other more deadly."

Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins in Crime Is Not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America (Oxford University Press 1997), pp. 122-23.

For a critical examination of the National Rifle Association and its objections to gun control, see Michael Moore's film "Bowling for Columbine" (MGM Home Entertainment 2003).

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