Citation #1:Homicide and gun control the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and homicide rates Creator Monroe, Jeffrey D., 1968- 

Summary: This book is about how over the years the crimes because of gun ownership had been increasing since the early 90’s, how they are still going up and how millions of Americans own a gun and it is because of this that there has been a lot of casualties and deaths because of gun ownership.

Reflection:The reflection of this book is that gun ownership should be lower and not all people should be allowed to use a gun and by doing this casualties can be lower and also deaths can be lower.

Quotation:Roughly 250 million firearms (P. J. Cook & Ludwig, 1996b; Zawitz, 1995) are distributed among about 40 percent 1 of American households (Gillespie, 1999; NSSF, 2006; Saad, 2001, Smith, 2007). The rate of gun ownership increased by 100 percent from 1963 to 1994, and the handgun ownership rate increased by 188 percent during the same period (Kleck, 1997). In the year 2006, more than 17 million Americans age 7 and older went target shooting at least twice and nearly 18 million hunted with a firearm more than once; that same year, only 14.6 million played baseball and 12.4 million played softball at least twice (NSGA, 2006). The level of gun ownership and legal use gives credence to the argument that America has a strong gun culture actively involved in legitimate shooting sports (Kohn, 2004). At the same time, guns are too often used in unacceptable ways. In 2003, 27 percent of robberies, 8 percent of assaults and 3 percent of rapes/sexual assaults are committed by an offender with a gun (Perkins, 2003). That same year, there were 30,136 firearm-related deaths in the United States (Hoyert, Heron, Murphy & Kung, 2006)—just over 10 firearm-related deaths per 100,000 people. Of these, 16,907 were suicides, 11,920 were homicides, and 730 were accidental deaths.