Title: No case for banning handguns
Product review: Josh Sugarmann's theme is that only a handgun ban can reduce the US gun death rate and the first chapter details why modern guns are more lethal than ever. Contributor Terry Gainer boasts that gun bans in Chicago and Washington DC have been effective.The fact is homicide rates dropped from 9.8/100,000 population in 1993 to 5.7 in 1999. The fatal gun accident rate dropped 50% in the same decade. Sugarmann's explanation is "..the drug wars receded,.."(without a gun ban).Washington DC has the second highest homicide rate in the country and Chicago rates 14th. Dallas and Miami have lower homicide rates in 1998 and had a greater reduction over the 1990's. Of course honest citizens can not only own guns in Texas and Florida, they can routinely get permits to carry them in public. Sugarmann's aguments don't beat the facts.
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