TITLE

Why the guns?

AUTHOR(S)

Wilson, Ted

PUB. DATE

April 1999

SOURCE

Enterprise/Salt Lake City;04/26/99, Vol. 28 Issue 44, p14

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on the linkage of violence to guns in the United States. Desensitization of society with violence; Gun ownership as a symbol of freedom; Consequences of the proliferation of guns; Violence as unprotected speech under the Constitution.

ACCESSION #

1813602

Tags: VIOLENCE;  FIREARMS -- Social aspects;  FIREARMS ownership

 

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