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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- PART I. ISSUES OF GUN CONTROL AND GUN OWNERSHIP -- 1. Ideology, Politics, and Propaganda -- Ideological Ironies and Crosscurrents -- The Appearance of Reason- Fallacies in Gun Control Reasoning -- Fallacies in Anticontrol Argumentation -- Fallacies in Procontrol Argumentation -- Common Problems of Persuasion -- 2. Ownership and Uses of Guns -- Size of the Civilian Gun Stock -- Who Owns Guns? -- Why People Own Guns -- Uses of Guns -- How Are Guns Acquired? -- Conclusions -- 3. Searching for "Bad" Guns: The Focus on Special Gun Types -- Introduction -- Machine Guns -- Assault Rifles and Assault Weapons -- Plastic Guns -- "Cop-Killer" Bullets -- "Saturday Night Specials"- Small, Cheap Handguns -- Handguns -- Conclusions -- PART II. EFFECTS OF GUNS ON VIOLENCE -- 4. Guns and Self-Defense -- The Nature of Defensive Gun Use -- The Frequency of Defensive Gun Use: Survey Data -- Problems with the Surveys -- Shooting in Self-Defense -- Carrying Guns for Protection -- Psychological Effects of Keeping Guns for Protection -- Effectiveness and Risks of Armed Resistance to Criminals -- Rape and Resistance -- The Police Chiefs Fallacy -- An Exercise in Ingenious Speciousness -- Crimes Involving Defensive Gun Use -- Deterrence -- Guns and the Displacement of Burglars from Occupied Homes -- Conclusions -- Implications for Crime Control Policy -- 5. Guns and Violent Crime -- Guns and Power -- Issues of Assault Outcomes -- Attack -- Injury -- Death -- Guns in Robbery and Rape -- Individual-Level Analysis -- Problems in Analyzing Violent Incidents -- Methods of the Present Analysis -- Aggregate-Level Analysis of Gun Ownership and Violence Rates -- International Comparisons -- A City-Level Study of Gun Levels and Violent Crime Rates -- An English Test of the Link Between Guns and Crime Rates

ObjectiveTo systematically review the methods and findings of previous macro‐level research on the effect of firearms prevalence on suicide rates, and carry out a better state‐level analysis.MethodsA cross‐sectional model of suicide rates is estimated with weighted least squares, using direct survey measures of gun prevalence.Results and ConclusionPrior macro‐level research is afflicted by the use of small samples of large heterogeneous units, invalid measures of gun prevalence, and few controls for confounders. The methodologically soundest prior research indicates that gun prevalence affects rates of gun suicides, but not total suicides. The new analysis likewise finds no significant effect of gun prevalence on total suicide rates.