Perspectives
Tags: FIREARMS ownership -- Social aspects; FIREARMS -- Social aspects
Related Articles
- Would I be safer with a gun? Japenga, Ann // Health (Time Inc. Health);Mar/Apr94, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p52
Debates on the issue of gun ownership in the prevention of crime and protection against criminals. Rise of criminality as reason for the increase in gun ownership among American families; Incidents of crime in family who owns a gun; Women demand for guns; Trend of women buying guns; Feminist...
- A nation of cowards. Snyder, Jeffrey R. // Public Interest;Fall93, Issue 113, p40
Discusses the rationale for gun ownership. Discrepancy between individualism and non-resistance to lethal violence; Cowardice, self-respect, self-esteem, and dignity; Existence of police as release from responsibility; Responsibility of fighting back; Gun control proposals; Gun owner...
- Liberal Culture Spawns 'Senseless' Violence. Roberts, Paul Craig // Human Events;01/22/2001, Vol. 57 Issue 3, p16
Argues that liberalism should be blamed for the prevalence of motiveless violence in the United States rather than gun ownership. Impact of cultural change on the incidence of motiveless shootings; How liberalism changed the society's morals.
- THE WAR AGAINST GUN OWNERS. Kohn, Abigail // American Enterprise;Jun2005, Vol. 16 Issue 4, p34
Focuses on the social aspects of gun ownership in the U.S. Views of the print media on gun owners since the 1970s; Core values that guns symbolize, according to a 1997 anthropological study of gun enthusiasm; Interest of shooters in equality.
- The Shot. Schuh, Dwight // Bowhunter;Mar/Apr2007, Vol. 36 Issue 5, p96
The article discusses the conflicts between bowhunters and rifle hunters.
- Gun crazy: Are we a country out of control? Stasio, Marilyn // Cosmopolitan;Mar1994, Vol. 216 Issue 3, p180
No abstract available.
- For our kids' sake, let's end the fatal attraction to guns. Drinan, Robert F. // National Catholic Reporter;08/14/98, Vol. 34 Issue 36, p20
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.
- Handgun access. Sagall, Richard J. // Pediatrics for Parents;1992, Vol. 13 Issue 11, p5
Reports a survey of 11th graders in Seattle on the possibility of getting a handgun, cited from the `American Family Physician,' August 1992. Sources of handguns; Percentage of 11th graders who can get handguns.
- On weapons and the health of society. // World Watch;May/Jun96, Vol. 9 Issue 3, p8
Gives information on quotations relating to weapons and the health of the society. Mahbub ul Haq speaking at the 21st World Conference of the Society for International Development; G. Gordon Liddy's view on guns.
