RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Guns as American Exceptionalism
A1 Jacobs, James
K1 Armas de fuego - Estados Unidos
AB There is no issue on which the U.S. is as exceptional as civilian ownership of firearms.  There are an estimated 330 million firearms in private hands; there is at least one firearm in 40% of American households.  With 5% of the world's population, the U.S. has more than half of the world's civilian gun stock.  How can this situation be explained?  What problem or problems does it cause? How can Americans tolerate mass shootings that seem to occur more and more regularly? How come the National Rifle Association exerts so much political influence? To what extent does the U.S. constitution constrain policy options? What isthe prospect for sensible gun control in the near future?
YR 2018
FD 2018-04-23
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/15581
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/15581
LA eng
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026