TITLE

For our kids' sake, let's end the fatal attraction to guns

AUTHOR(S)

Drinan, Robert F.

PUB. DATE

August 1998

SOURCE

National Catholic Reporter;08/14/98, Vol. 34 Issue 36, p20

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Urges people in the United States (US) to give up their obsession for guns. Gun culture of Americans; Comparison on how US and Canada treat guns and controls over them; Statistics that prove Americans' obsession for guns; View of the Catholic bishops of America on gun ownership.

ACCESSION #

1001897

Tags: FIREARMS -- Social aspects

 

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