Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America

When I saw that it listed as only one left, I figured that I might receive a dog eared, much used book. It was in wonderful shape. Now I have to find time to finish reading this great piece of literature that absolutely proves that an armed american is a safer american. I read part of it and loaned the book out and I forgot to who I loaned it to. I'm happy to have a very decent used book from this distributor. which I'll lend out after.... I finish it.

Pretty dry, but to be expected.

My daughter used this book as a valuable tool in assisting her with an Honors English paper against gun control. The author set out to prove that gun control would assist our society, and instead came to a completely different solution.

A very careful, detailed looks at gun control, crime, possible stratagem, all in a very readable format.

Kleck is a gun lover and his biased research is directly counter to more respected agnostic work by the Director of the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. David Hemenway in his book Private Gun, Public Health. Over and over again its been pointed out by research studies that the more guns in a society the more lethality. Mr. Kleck's work is used by gun rights extremists to ex-post facto prove their flawed argument on the gun debate

Well researched subject with hard data and empirical evidence to back up his claims.

I enjoyed the book,well written and i will use for reference in the future.I basically subscribe to the people politics of the author.

I have had Point Blank on my reference shelf for a couple of decades now. It is an extremely valuable resource for anyone interested in firearms legislation. Gary Kleck includes large amounts of data that is difficult to find with an Internet search, because the book was published when the Internet was in its infancy For example, he has tables listing firearms manufacture, imports and exports from 1946 to 1987. It is just one of many hard to find sources of information that are in the book.Dr. Kleck is highly thought of by his peers; he recieved the Michael Hindelang award from the American Society of Criminology in 1993, shortly after Point Blank was published.Kleck is a self described liberal. His thinking about legal restrictions on gun use has been changed by his academic research.I would like to see Dr. Kleck produce an updated version of Point Blank. It has been two decades. While most of the data can now be found on the Internet, It would be handy to have it all in one easily accessible source.

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