Author : David Hemenway
Release : 2017-08-07
Genre : Medical
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 254/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Private Guns, Public Health, New Ed. by : David Hemenway
Download or read book Private Guns, Public Health, New Ed. written by David Hemenway. This book was released on 2017-08-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill over ninety people and wound about three hundred more; yet such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence. Private Guns, Public Health reveals the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem—an approach that emphasizes prevention over punishment and that has successfully reduced the rates of injury and death from infectious disease, car accidents, and tobacco consumption. Hemenway fair-mindedly and authoritatively outlines a policy course that would significantly reduce gun-related injury and death, pointing us toward a solution.