I just finished reading Abigail Kohn's excellent book Shooters: Myths and Realities of America's Gun Cultures (Oxford University Press). She is an ethnologist who has taken up shooting and wrote a very even handed book that should be read by people on both sides of the debate. It is also avialable in Kindle edition
The Pew Research Center has recently published a poll on attitudes toward gun control and the interesting statistics are here:
http://pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/gun-control-2011.pdf
Interestingly, whites rather than blacks, voters rather than non-voters, people who have started but not completed college are more in favor of gun rights as are those making between $99k and $30k. An interesting picture...
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1858/gu...hics-party-ideology-religion-region-tea-party
A brief precis of Kohn's position on how to conduct a useful debate between gun rights and gun control is here - check it out:
http://reason.com/archives/2005/05/01/straight-shooting-on-gun-contr
The Pew Research Center has recently published a poll on attitudes toward gun control and the interesting statistics are here:
http://pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/gun-control-2011.pdf
Interestingly, whites rather than blacks, voters rather than non-voters, people who have started but not completed college are more in favor of gun rights as are those making between $99k and $30k. An interesting picture...
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1858/gu...hics-party-ideology-religion-region-tea-party
A brief precis of Kohn's position on how to conduct a useful debate between gun rights and gun control is here - check it out:
http://reason.com/archives/2005/05/01/straight-shooting-on-gun-contr