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Previous Volume 330:375 February 3, 1994 Number 5

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(Contemporary Issues.) Edited by Lee Nisbet. 341 pp. New York, Prometheus Books, 1990. $17.95. ISBN 0-87975-618-7.

As the title implies, this book frames the issue of gun control as a verbal duel between advocates with opposing views. The editor has organized 24 diverse selections, mostly written in the 1980s, into 4 loosely connected sections: "A Culture in Conflict" (4 papers selected to illustrate the influence of values on policy preferences), "Controlling Crime and Violence" (10 papers on the relation between the availability of guns and patterns of violence), "Guns for Self-Defense: Protection or Menace?" (8 papers on the risks involved in the use of guns for self-protection), and "Interpreting the Second Amendment: Culture Conflict Revealed" (2 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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