Citation

Zimring FE. J. Law Med. Ethics 2004; 32(1): 34.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1748-720X.2004.tb00446.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This paper organizes the question of gun controls as violence policy under two quite different headings. The first issue to be discussed is the relationship between gun use and the death rate from violent crime. The second question is whether and how firearms control strategies might reduce the death rate front violence. Gun control is a potential life-saving tool but only if the use of guns in attack can be reduced, and achieving that in our city streets will neither be easy or cheap.

Language: en