Gun utopias? Firearm access and ownership in Israel and Switzerland
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Gun utopias? Firearm access and ownership in Israel and Switzerland.
The 2011 attempted assassination of a US representative renewed the national gun control debate. Gun advocates claim mass-casualty events are mitigated and deterred with three policies: (a) permissive gun laws, (b) widespread gun ownership, (c) and encouragement of armed civilians who can intercept shooters. They cite Switzerland and Israel as exemplars. We evaluate these claims with analysis o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Health Policy
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0197-5897,1745-655X
DOI: 10.1057/jphp.2011.56