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Previous Volume 344:1484-1485 May 10, 2001 Number 19

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By Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig. 242 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2000. $25. ISBN 0-19-513793-0.

In 1997, guns claimed the lives of more than 32,000 Americans, and another 81,000 suffered serious nonfatal injuries. Yet these figures fail to reveal the full toll of firearm violence. Not included, for example, are the costs of personal efforts to manage risk, expenditures for prevention by public agencies, and a general reduction in our quality of life. In Gun Violence, Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig attempt to quantify the total annual expense of firearm misuse. They settle at an estimate of $100 billion. While developing their accounting scheme, they concisely but thoroughly discuss the major issues in gun-policy . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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