| Introduction | p. 13 |
| Gun Accidents versus Self-Defense | p. 15 |
| The Character of Gun Owners | p. 18 |
| The Myth That Ordinary People Murder | p. 20 |
| The Threat of Long Gun Substitution | p. 22 |
| The Second Amendment Constitutional Right to Arms | p. 24 |
| Notes | p. 25 |
| Guns and Public Health: Epidemic of Violence, or Pandemic of Propaganda? | p. 31 |
| The Public Health Agenda | p. 32 |
| The Verdict of Criminological Scholarship | p. 35 |
| Fear and Loathing as Social Science | p. 38 |
| A Nosology of Health Sage Error | p. 40 |
| The Valor of Ignorance | p. 42 |
| Issues, Data and References "Missing in Action" | p. 43 |
| Unnatural Selection | p. 46 |
| "Sagecraft" and Scholarship | p. 48 |
| International Disinformation | p. 51 |
| Gun Availability, Social Harms and Fraudulent Nondisclosure | p. 63 |
| Shibboleth Diverts Attention from Actual Causes | p. 68 |
| A Critique of Overt Mendacity | p. 69 |
| The Myth That Murderers Are Ordinary Gun Owners | p. 72 |
| "Gun Ownership as a Risk Factor for Homicide in the Home" | p. 73 |
| Conclusion | p. 83 |
| Notes | p. 85 |
| "Poisoning the Well" for Gun Control | p. 107 |
| A Tripartite Debate | p. 109 |
| Poisoning the Well for Gun Control | p. 110 |
| The "Gun Control Paradox" | p. 111 |
| Gun Control Plebiscites | p. 114 |
| On the Morality of Personal Self-Defense | p. 116 |
| Conclusion | p. 121 |
| Notes | p. 122 |
| Absolutist Politics in a Moderate Package: Prohibitionist Intentions of the Gun Control Movement | p. 129 |
| The Issue: Moderate Overt Agendas vs. Covert Prohibitionist Goals | p. 129 |
| Why Do Prohibitionist Intentions Matter? | p. 140 |
| Evidence of Prohibitionist Intent of the Leaders of the Gun Control Movement | p. 143 |
| Past Political Efforts of Advocacy Groups | p. 144 |
| Recent Precedents of Gun Prohibition in Other Nations | p. 146 |
| "Nondenial Denials" of Prohibitionist Intentions | p. 147 |
| Support for Gun Bans Among Moderate Control Supporters in the General Population | p. 149 |
| Public Statements Made by Leaders and Prominent Supporters of the Gun Control Lobby | p. 150 |
| The Premises and Logic of Arguments for Moderate Controls | p. 154 |
| The Advocacy of Licensing and Registration in Addition to Background Checks | p. 160 |
| Conclusions | p. 163 |
| Notes | p. 166 |
| Modes of News Media Distortion of Gun Issues | p. 173 |
| Sins of Omission--Exclusion Bias | p. 175 |
| A Speculation About How Exclusion Bias Works | p. 181 |
| Unbalanced Skepticism Applied to Pro and Con Information | p. 182 |
| Amount of "Play"--Extent and Prominence of Coverage | p. 184 |
| Editorial Stances and Other Newspaper Policies | p. 186 |
| Other Forms of Bias | p. 187 |
| A Case Study--A CBS Television Documentary | p. 187 |
| Newsweek and the Invention of a Machine Guns Crisis | p. 197 |
| The Bernhard Goetz Case | p. 199 |
| Is It Bias or Just Random Sloppiness? | p. 202 |
| Discussion and Conclusions | p. 203 |
| Notes | p. 208 |
| The Frequency of Defensive Gun Use: Evidence and Disinformation | p. 213 |
| Early Surveys with Defensive Gun Use Questions | p. 214 |
| The National Self-Defense Survey | p. 215 |
| NSDS Results | p. 221 |
| Later Surveys | p. 226 |
| Explaining the Deviant NCVS Results | p. 229 |
| Early-Intervention DGUs | p. 235 |
| DGU in Crimes with No Harm to the Victim | p. 237 |
| Telescoping as a Source of Overestimation in the DGU Surveys | p. 239 |
| The Scholarly Response to Large DGU Estimates | p. 241 |
| Fallacious Reductio and Absurdum Reasoning | p. 244 |
| The Meaning of Internal Inconsistencies in DGU Reports | p. 250 |
| Direct Evidence on the Relative Balance of False Positives and False Negatives | p. 253 |
| Circular Reasoning in Numerical Exercises on the Sensitivity of DGU Estimates to False Positives | p. 254 |
| One-sided Consideration of Errors in DGU Estimation | p. 257 |
| The Rare-DGU Theory: The Creation Science of Criminology | p. 260 |
| Discouraging the Development of Better DGU Estimates | p. 262 |
| The Relative Frequency of Defensive and Offensive Uses of Guns | p. 264 |
| Conclusions | p. 267 |
| Policy Implications of Large DGU Estimates | p. 271 |
| Adjusting Earlier Estimates of DGU | p. 272 |
| Notes | p. 275 |
| The Nature and Effectiveness of Owning, Carrying, and Using Guns for Self-Protection | p. 285 |
| Issues of Armed Resistance to Criminals | p. 285 |
| The Effectiveness and Risks of Victim Resistance with Guns | p. 288 |
| Multivariate Analysis of Robbery and Armed Resistance | p. 293 |
| Multivariate Analysis of Rape and Armed Resistance | p. 294 |
| The Police Chief's Fallacy | p. 295 |
| The Myth of Criminals Taking Guns from Gun-wielding Victims | p. 296 |
| Self-Defense Killings and Woundings of Criminals | p. 298 |
| Keeping Loaded Guns in the Home | p. 300 |
| Carrying Guns for Protection | p. 305 |
| Psychological Effects of Keeping Guns for Protection | p. 308 |
| The Nonsense Ratio | p. 310 |
| The Nature of Defensive Gun Use | p. 313 |
| Who Is Involved in Defensive Gun Use? | p. 316 |
| Deterrence of Crime Due to Fear of Gun-Armed Victims | p. 318 |
| Guns and the Displacement of Burglars from Occupied Homes | p. 328 |
| Conclusions | p. 330 |
| Implications for Crime Control Policy | p. 332 |
| Notes | p. 334 |
| The Second Amendment: A Right to Personal Self-Protection | p. 343 |
| Self-Protection as Benefit to the Whole Community | p. 346 |
| Political Functions of the Right to Arms | p. 348 |
| The Armed Freeholder Ideal of Virtuous Citizenship | p. 349 |
| The Efficacy of Arms and Self-Defense | p. 351 |
| Conclusion | p. 352 |
| Notes | p. 354 |
| Subject Index | p. 357 |
| Name Index | p. 361 |
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