Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns

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[RogueIsland]

VPC Launches New Web Site, www.banhandgunsnow.org, in Conjunction With Release of Paperback Edition of Latest Book, Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns

WASHINGTON, DC—In conjunction with release of the paperback edition of its most recent book, Every Handgun is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns (The New Press, 2001), the Violence Policy Center (VPC) today launched a new citizen-action web site, www.banhandgunsnow.org. Each year handguns claim more than 20,000 American lives in suicides, homicides, and unintentional shootings. The unique qualities that make handguns ideally suited for violent death and injury—concealability coupled with lethality—are illustrated daily in American homes and as far away as the Paris suburbs, where yesterday eight were killed and 19 wounded by a French citizen wielding a legally possessed handgun.

Josh Sugarmann, VPC executive director and author of the book, states, "The single bloody thread that runs through our nation's gun death and injury crisis is the easy accessibility we allow our citizens to the most lethal categories of firearms, with handguns at the top of the list. After each horrific shooting a predictable pattern emerges, we quickly look for a loophole to be plugged, a limited law that could be better enforced, or other `common sense' solutions, while never stepping back to look at the big picture: the free flow of guns—and in particular handguns—in our nation. America's gun violence problem will not be solved by licensing and registration, trigger locks, or lamentations over the evil in men's hearts. Tragic shootings are America's future until we eliminate handguns, the tools that make such violence possible."

The new VPC web site—which contains studies, analyses, survey data, and useful links—will be updated continuously. Banhandgunsnow.org is launched with the recognition that more than 30 percent of the American public supports a ban on handguns, with this number rising to as high as 50 percent in the wake of horrific shootings like 1999's Columbine massacre. Adds Sugarmann, "Our goal is simple: to engage and activate dedicated gun control supporters. Banhandgunsnow.org will give voice to gun control advocates who have grown weary of limited half-measures that may offend few, but fail to accomplish much."

Every Handgun is Aimed at You: The Case For Banning Handguns covers a wide range of issues in 10 chapters, including: An Introduction to Handguns; The History of Handguns; Handguns and Suicide; Handguns and Self-Defense; Handguns and Crime; Handguns and Women; Handguns and Youth; Handguns and Minorities; Handguns in Public; and, The Case for Banning Handguns. The book is available at bookstores nationwide.

[dennisw]

ESR | November 26, 2001 | New perspectives on gun control
... At the ideological extremes are books that blatantly appeal to the emotions, like
Josh Sugarmann's "Every Handgun is Aimed at You" and books that falsify ...
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Yeah this Sugarmann does get around. Here's what his 100th hit on google is about. 100 hits is pretty good.

[dennisw]

I like it!!! Yosemite Sam is very pro-Second Amendment!

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Every Handgun Is Aimed at You:

But for everyone pointed at me theres at least one pointed back and im a darn good shot! what morons these antigunners are.

[joesnuffy]

Dagnabbit that was a good post..

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

LMAOROTF

[BikerTrash]

Tragic shootings are America's future until we eliminate handguns...

No. Wrong!

The best way to minimize "tragic shootings" is for good shootings to occur slightly before the "tragic" ones.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

The best way to minimize "tragic shootings" is for good shootings to occur slightly before the "tragic" ones

And for the media to recognize good shootings and stop glorifying bad ones

[BikerTrash]

And for the media to recognize good shootings and stop glorifying bad ones.

Good point, but if you hold your breath waiting for this to happen your demise from lack of air will be reported as "ANOTHER TRAGIC HANDGUN RELATED DEATH!"

[crazyhorseoglala]

Did he get any endorsements from Rosie O'Fatbutt or the other fatbutt bookend Ohpra? Not to mention the Hollywood
hypocrites who make shoot'em up flicks for yours and your childrens entertainment then go on the Fatbutts shows to tell you how guns are hazzardous to your health.

[TheDon]

It think they are referring to all of the criminals' guns.

[Austin Willard Wright]

If they are, the language is extremely loose. The implication is that all handguns are intrinsically evil.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

How times change. In 1940 America, a book called called "Everygun is aimed at you" would have been written with an eye toward criminals rather than honest people.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

And the colonists were fed and clothed by friendly Indians, too, eh ?

[Eagle Eye]

This isn't as politically boneheaded as declaring the Pledge unconstitutional, but it is close.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

OH i didnt say i was gonna hold my breath lmao

[Comus]

Exactly right. If you had a dollar for every copy sold, you probably couldn't buy a decent used N frame Smith.

[Drew68]

FYI,

Ban Handguns Now (VPC launches new web site)

[teeman8r]

tell that guy in baltimore who was stopped by the FBI.... and lost his face to a shotgun blast...