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Gun Rights or Gun Control:
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- * Gun Control vs.
Gun Rights: The Issue
- A good introductory page with special emphasis on
how gun control/gun rights are dealt with as an issue in politics. Of
particular interest are the data on the amounts of money contributed in
support of gun rights and gun control; the sources of the
contributions; and the politicians who most benefit.
- * Wikipedia:
Gun Politics
- Information on the controversy around the world
- Gun
Control in the United States
- 'A comparative survey of state firearm laws.' This
page includes some interesting graphs on state firearm laws in the
United States
- Jurist:
Gun Laws, Gun Control, and Gun Rights
- A "resource for people on all sides of the ongoing
controversy over the legal status of guns in the United States"
including news, current court cases and legislation, and political
position papers.
Related topics
- Information:
'the right to bear arms'
- Amendment II (two) of the US Constitution defines
the legal rights of people in the US to "keep and bear arms;"
- Public
Agenda: Crime
- Lots of interesting background information on crime
in the US, and US citizens' reactions to it
- School
violence
- Resources from the New York Times. See also 'Violence
in schools', a special issue of Teacher-Talk, an electronic
magazine for secondary school teachers
Statistics
- Bureau
of Justice Statistics
- US Crime, the judicial system, etc; see especially
graphs on Firearms
and Crime Statistics
- Rates
of Homicide, Suicide, and Firearm-Related Death Among Children -- 26
Industrialized Countries
- USA Center for Disease Control (CDS)
- International
Murder Rates
- Country-by-country comparison
- Crime
and Gun Laws in several countries
- From a pro-gun control site
- Yale
Medical Group: firearm injuries
- A few facts on injuries; a more detailed report is
available from the US
Department of Justice
- CNN:
USA State-By-State Gun Control Laws
- Click on a state in this interactive map to see the
state's laws; more links are HERE
- Murder
Victims, by Weapons Used
- US statistics, 1965 to 1996, from the Information
Please Almanac; information is also available US: 2002
and for Australia
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