Josh Sugarmann
Josh Sugarmann
Josh Sugarmann is the executive director and founder of the Violence Policy Centerand the author of two books on gun control. Prior to founding the VPC, Sugarmann was a press officer in the national office of Amnesty International USA and was the communications director for the National Coalition to Ban Handguns...
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There will always be angry men who want to take out their rage and it's the access to specific categories of firearms like assault rifles and handguns that allow them to do so quickly and easily.
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It ranges from advertisements in youth magazines to outreach programs targeting kids, even trying to bring in women who are single parents and eventually get their kids in what is part of becoming, in essence, a youth gun culture.
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Fear, physical pain, and death are just part of the price Americans pay for the easy access of handguns. It is estimated that the total costs to Americans of gun violence (the vast majority of which involves handguns) is measured in tens of billions of dollars.3 In comparison, the wholesale value of the 1.3 million handguns manufactured in America in 1998 totaled only $370 million.
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Handguns are a public-health problem.