How does the anti-gun ownershipbias in the mainstream media manifest itself, and why does it exist?� How has Hollywood'streatment of guns changed over the past three-plus decades, and what are thepossible social repercussions of these changes?�How have various elites attempted over the centuries to use gun controlsto keep non-elites in line?� How arethese issues related to each other?�These are among the questions addressed in Gun Control=People Control, a collection of eleven essaysoriginally published in such periodicals as Reason,Liberty, Chronicles, and Gun Week.Starting back in the middle1970's, careful scholars, many of whom were themselves uneasy about guns, beganproducing studies demolishing gun-prohibitionist claims that widespread gun ownershipfosters high violent-crime rates, that guns are useless for self-defensepurposes, and that the Second Amendment guarantees no individual right to keepand bear arms.� However, thesegun-prohibitionists claims have yet to be publicly discredited and are widelyaccepted in circles considered to be enlightened.� Why?�Could it be that attempts to control civilian gun ownership to the pointof prohibition have nothing to do with crime control?� Read this book and find out.

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William R. Tonsois a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Evansville, where his teachingspecialties were minority and ethnic group relations, social deviance, socialtheory, and the sociology of sport.� HisPh.D. in sociology (1976), M.S. in business administration specializing inpersonnel management (1966), and B.S. in industrial education (1955), are all from Southern Illinois University - Carbondale.� He is the author of Gun and Society:�The Social and Existential Roots of the American Attachment toFirearms and a number of gun-issue pieces published as book chapters or inperiodicals such as USA Today, Reason, American Rifleman, Outdoor Life, and The Quill, and is the editor of and acontributor to The Gun Culture and ItsEnemies.

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