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Edwards, Amy N.; Walker, Tim – 1994
This teacher's guide is designed to accompany the two-part videotape "To Keep and Bear Arms: Gun Control and the Second Amendment." The videotape and teacher's guide should help students to: (1) understand the history of the Second Amendment; (2) examine how guns and gun control laws affect people's lives; (3) compare and contrast the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law
Peer reviewedKleck, Gary – American Behavioral Scientist, 1996
Questions whether attitudes towards gun control are influenced primarily by exposure to high crime rates, prior victimization, and fear of crime, or result from membership in social groups hostile to gun ownership. Maintains that support for gun control is more a product of culture conflict than a response to crime. (MJP)
Descriptors: Crime, Cultural Background, Cultural Influences, Culture Conflict
