Weapons In America: Minimize Fear While Maximizing Public Safety

The gun debate in America is often framed as a stand-off between two immutable positions with little potential to move ahead with meaningful legislative reform. Attempts to resolve this impasse have been thwarted by thinking about gun ownership attitudes as based on rational choice economics instead of considering the broader socio-cultural meanings of guns. In this book, the author makes the case against several measures including licensing, registration, background checks, waiting periods, magazine capacity limits, gun-free zones, and bans on magazine-fed, semiautomatic or automatic firearms including short-barreled rifles and submachine guns, all such laws undermining public safety and the individual right to keep and bear arms. Also included is a chapter responding directly to Stephen King's Guns.