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Politicians
shroud themselves in talk of individual rights or public safety while
lobbyists on both sides make doom-and-gloom pronouncements on the consequences
of potential shifts in the status quo. In America today there are between
250 and 300 million firearms in private hands, amounting to one weapon
for every American. Two in five American homes house guns. On the one
hand, most gun owners are law-abiding citizens who believe they have
a constitutional right to bear arms. On the other, a great many people
believe gun control to be our best chance at reducing violent crime.
While few--whether gun owner or anti-gun advocate--dispute the need
to keep guns out of the wrong hands, the most important question has
too often been dodged: What gun control options does the most heavily
armed democracy in the world have? Can gun control really work? The
last decade has seen several watersheds in the debate, none more important
than the 1993 Brady Bill. That bill, James B. Jacobs argues, was the
culmination of a strategy in place since the 1930s to permit widespread
private ownership of guns while curtailing illegal use. But where do
we go from here? While the Brady background check is easily circumvented,
any further attempts to extend gun control--for instance, through comprehensive
licensing of all gun owners and registration of all guns--would pose
monumental administrative burdens. Jacobs moves beyond easy slogans
and broad-brush ideology to examine the on-the-ground practicalities
of gun control, from mandatory safety locks to outright prohibition
and disarmament. Casting aside ideology and abstractions, he cautions
against the belief that there exists some gun control solution which,
had we the political will to seize it, would substantially reduce violent
crime. In Can Gun Control Work?, James B. Jacobs, one of our most fearless
commentators on intractable social problems, has given us the most sober
and even-handed assessment of whether gun control can really be made
to work. 
