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Cleveland State University

2013

Gun ownership

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Adding Up The "Butcher's Bill" - The Public Health Consequences Of America's System Of Gun Regulation, Edward W. Hill Apr 2013

Adding Up The "Butcher's Bill" - The Public Health Consequences Of America's System Of Gun Regulation, Edward W. Hill

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

Adding up the “Butcher’s Bill”: The Public Health Consequences of the System of Gun Regulation in the United States examines trends in firearm’s related deaths, murders and injuries over time.


How Many Guns Are In The United States: Americans Own Between 262 Million And 310 Million Firearms, Edward W. Hill Apr 2013

How Many Guns Are In The United States: Americans Own Between 262 Million And 310 Million Firearms, Edward W. Hill

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

How Many Guns are in the United States? estimates the number of firearms available to the civilian population in the United States and the characteristics of the market for semiautomatic firearms.


The Cost Of Arming Schools: The Price Of Stopping A Bad Guy With A Gun, Edward W. Hill Apr 2013

The Cost Of Arming Schools: The Price Of Stopping A Bad Guy With A Gun, Edward W. Hill

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

The price of implementing the NRA’s proposal to place an armed security guard in every school building in the nation is nearly $13 billion a year. The opportunity cost to taxpayers for fully protected schools can reach $23 billion. The cost per student approaches $500 and would take up half of federal spending on elementary and secondary education if paid for by the federal government. Is this the cost of protecting schools? Or, is it just one cost for permitting unlimited access to semi-automatic weapons and large capacity ammunition clips and preventing the potential for mass murder in our schools?