Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 Data for Measuring Firearms Violence and Ownership; 5 3 Patterns of Firearm-Related Violence; 6 4 Interventions Aimed at Illegal Firearm Acquisition; 7 5 The Use of Firearms to Defend Against Criminals; 8 6 Right-to-Carry Laws; 9 7 Firearms and Suicide; 10 8 Firearm Injury Prevention Programs; 11 9 Criminal Justice Interventions to Reduce Firearm-Related Violence; 12 References; 13 Appendix A Dissent--James Q. Wilson; 14 Appendix B Committee Response to Wilson's Dissent; 15 Appendix C Judicial Scrutiny of Challenged Gun Control Regulations: The Implications of an Individual Right Interpretation of the Second Amendment--Scott Gast; 16 Appendix D Statistical Issues in the Evaluation of the Effects of Right-to-Carry Laws--Joel L. Horowitz; 17 Appendix E Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff; 18 Index

About the Author

Charles F. Wellford, John V. Pepper, and Carol V. Petrie, Editors, Committee on Law and Justice, National Research Council