Gun Safety and America's Cities : Current Perspectives and Practices.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gonzalez, Joaquin Jay, III

Contributor:

Kemp, Roger L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gun control--United States.

Gun control.

Firearms--Law and legislation--United States.

Firearms.

Firearms ownership--United States.

Firearms ownership.

Mass shootings--United States.

Mass shootings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2023.

Summary:

"Across government bodies, from local to federal, legislative responses to mass gun violence in the new millennium have varied greatly. Lack of communication or collaboration between government officials forestalls the implementation of practiced strategy. In an effort to encourage widespread solutions, this collection of resources outlines the state of gun legislation in the 21st century and provides strategies that have been implemented across the U.S. Combining a wide range of perspectives, this book is divided into three parts that each tackle a unique but essential facet of gun legislation in the U.S. The first section features essays from field experts that detail the facts and culture of modern gun ownership. The second section features critical essays that outline the challenges and solutions surrounding guns and public safety. This section also includes, in their entirety, relevant documents from the U.S. Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Lastly, the third section provides multiple forecasts for the future of gun culture and politics. With the goal of connecting government workers of all ranks, this volume extensively details the many new gun safety regulations that have been enacted across the United States"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Second amendment / Emily Costa

Most Americans believe we should have gun regulation / Ann Christiano and Annie Neimand

History of the National Firearms Act / U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

What are "firearms" under the National Firearms Act? / U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Quantifying the social cost of firearms : a new approach to gun control / Timothy M. Smith

Analysis: I was a teenage rifle owner, then an ER Doctor : assault weapons shouldn't count as "guns" / Elisabeth Rosenthal

Project guardian and project safe neighborhoods / U.S. Department of Justice

The Bureau and law enforcement / U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

NIBIN, CGICs, and eTrace / U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Five federal policies on guns you've never heard of / Suevon Lee

Extreme risk protection order model legislation / U.S. Department of Justice

Definition of "frame or receiver" and identification of firearms / U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Factoring criteria for firearms with attached "stabilizing braces" / U.S. Department of Justice

Republicans say no to CDC gun violence research / Lois Beckett

More states are allowing guns on college campuses / Neal H. Hutchens and Kerry B. Melear

Mass shootings do little to change state gun laws / Joaquin Sapien

New public database reveals striking differences in how guns are regulated from state to state / Michael Siegel and Molly Pahn

California firearms laws summary / California Office of the Attorney General

Becoming a DOJ certified instructor / California Department of Justice

Firearms and toolmarks / Utah Department of Public Safety

Weapons and schools / Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction

Clashes in the capital : public opinion on Virginia's new gun legislation / Center for Public Policy at VCU's Wilder School

"Red flag" gun laws get another look after Indiana, Colorado shootings / Christie Aschwanden

Summary of state and federal machine gun laws / Veronica Rose and Meghan Reilly

Gun violence : it can happen anywhere / Ron Carlee

Firearm regulation and cities / League of Minnesota Cities

Forget lanes

we all need to head together : toward preventing firearm injury / Michael Hirsh

Battling the bullets from the operating room to the community / Laura Ungar

DC's Harllee Harper is using public health tools to prevent gun violence : will it work? / Amanda Michelle Gomez

Civic engagement, guns, constitutional rights and ASPA / Don Klingner

How the gun control debate ignores Black lives / Lois Beckett

The final cut / Chaseedaw Giles

The road to responsible gun ownership / National Shooting Sports Foundation

The American public has power over the gun business : why doesn't it use it? / Brian DeLay

How the U.S. government created and coddled the gun industry / Brian DeLay

Is the NRA an educational organization? A lobby group? A nonprofit? A media outlet? Yes / Samuel Brunson

The NRA's video channel is a hotbed of online hostility / Adam G. Klein

Arming non-teaching staff / Ian Smith

Searching for safety : where children hide when gunfire is all too common / Cara Anthony

Why Trump's idea to arm teachers may miss the mark / Aimee Huff and Michelle Barnhart

Books, binders, bleed-control kits : how school shootings are changing classroom basics / Sandy West

Fired! : is your community ready for an active shooter? / Rod Gould and Jack Brown

Most mass killers are men who have also attacked family / Lisa Aronson Fontes

Dealing with terrorist threats / Sean Britton

Orlando paramedics didn't go in to save victims of the pulse shooting / Abe Aboraya

Myth vs. fact : violence and mental health / Lois Beckett

More mental health care won't stop the gun epidemic, new study suggests / Tom Wickizer, Evan V. Goldstein, and Laura Prater

Among U.S. states, New York's suicide rate is the lowest. How's that? / Michelle Andrews

What happens after a campus suicide is a form of prevention, too / Aneri Pattani

Five first responders to the Pulse Massacre. one diagnosis : PTSD / Abe Aboraya

As anxieties rise, Californians buy hundreds of thousands more guns / Phillip Reese

Homicides surge in California amid Covid shutdowns of schools, youth programs / Phillip Reese

Despite pandemic, trauma centers see no end to "the visible virus of violence" / Giles Bruce

Federalism and its discontents: guns, germs and insurrection / Alan H. Kennedy

Keeping our neighbors safe / Sarah Sweeney

What makes a "smart gun" smart / Donald Sebastian

Do Americans want to buy "smart" guns? / Lacey Wallace

License and registration, please : how regulating guns like cars could improve safety / Keith Guzik and Gary T. Marx

People who shoot risk unhealthy levels of lead exposure / Mark A.S. Laidlaw, Andrew Ball, Brian Gulson, Gabriel Filippelli, and Howard Walter Mielke

Gunning for understanding: Facebook and the gun control debate in America / Maggie Callahan

Appendix A : glossary of gun safety terms and acronyms / Alan R. Roper

Appendix B : proclamation declaring June 4, 2021, National Gun Violence Awareness Day / City of Lafayette, Colorado

Appendix C : expressing support for the designation of June 4, 2021, as "National Gun Violence Awareness Day" and June as "National Gun Violence Awareness Month" / U.S. Congress

Appendix D : prohibiting firearms at work, LMC model policy / League of Minnesota Cities.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Gonzalez, Joaquin Jay Gun Safety and America's Cities

ISBN:

1-4766-4892-1

OCLC:

1381093994