Handguns - vital weapons or deadly killers?

Introduction         There are presently in excess of 200 million guns in the United States, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Each year this number grows by 4 to 5 million. There are 60 to 65 million legal owners of one or more guns.1 There is a firearm on the premises of more than half the households in America. Most of them keep guns for protection. The others keep them for hunting, target shooting, collecting, and similar pursuits.         …

…Ibid pg. 48         4. Neil Bernard, Gun Control ( San Diego, Ca., Lucent Books, 1991 ) pg 68         5. Ibid pg. 56 Bibliography Aitkens, Maggi. Should We Have Gun Control. Minniapolis, Minn: ., Lerner         Publications. 1992. Bernard, Neil. Gun Control. San Diego, Ca.: Lucent Books. 1991. Gottfried, Ted., Gun Control and The Right to Bear Arms. Brookfield, Ct.: The         Millbrook Press., 1993 Gottlieb, Alan. Gun Rights Fact Book Bellevue, Washington: Merril Press, 1988. Robers, Joseph Jr.The Armed Citizen. Washington D.C. : The Nation Rifile Association         of America. 1989.