Series Foreword Preface Part 1: American gun culture and history 1. Five types of gun laws the Founding Fathers loved 2. 3 enduring stories Americans tell about guns 3. How the ''good guy with a gun'' became a deadly American fantasy 4. American gun culture is based on frontier mythology - but ignores how common gun restrictions were in the Old West 5. How the NRA evolved from backing a 1943 ban on machine guns to blocking nearly all firearm restrictions today 6. The key role firearms makers play in America''s gun culture 7. Hollywood''s love of guns increases the risk of shootings - both on and off set 8.
If you give a man a gun: the evolutionary psychology of mass shootings 9. Want to understand gun owners? Watch their videos 10. Why are medieval weapons laws at the center of a US Supreme Court case? Part 2: The many forms of gun violence 11. Norway and Finland have similar levels of gun ownership, but far less gun crime 12. The facts on the US children and teens killed by firearms 13. How easy access to guns at home contributes to America''s youth suicide problem 14. How dangerous people get their weapons in America 15. Gun violence in the US kills more black people and urban dwellers 16.
Why do American cops kill so many compared to European cops? 17. Police are more likely to kill men and women of color 18. Don''t shoot: When Dallas police draw their guns, they usually choose not to fire 19. Are mass shootings an American epidemic? Part 3: The trauma of school shootings 20. Why there''s so much inconsistency in school shooting data 21. School shootings are at a record high this year - but they can be prevented 22. 5 ways to reduce school shootings 23. Most school shooters get their guns from home - and during the pandemic, the number of firearms in households with teenagers went up 24.
Arming teachers - an effective security measure or a false sense of security? Part 4: The effects of gun violence 25. The lasting consequences of school shootings on the students who survive them 26. Mass shootings leave behind collective despair, anguish and trauma at many societal levels 27. Gun violence has fuelled enduring trust issues for many Americans 28. Why Americans bought more guns than ever during the pandemic 29. Are looser gun laws changing the social fabric of Missouri? Part 5: The politics of gun control--and the policies that could save lives 30. How US gun control compares to the rest of the world 31. Public database reveals striking differences in how guns are regulated from state to state 32.
US tragedies from guns have often - but not always - spurred political responses 33. Supreme Court sweeps aside New York''s limits on carrying a gun, raising Second Amendment rights to new heights 34. Red flag laws saved 7,300 Americans from gun deaths in 2020 alone - and could have saved 11,400 more 35. Would closing the ''boyfriend loophole'' in gun legislation save lives? Here''s what the research says 36. There are historical and psychological reasons why the legal age for purchasing assault weapons does not make sense 37. Did the assault weapons ban of 1994 bring down mass shootings? Here''s what the data tells us 38. Why is there so little research on guns in the US? 39. Public health research reduced smoking deaths - it could do the same for gun violence 40.
Indianapolis is trying programs ranging from job skills to therapy to reduce gun violence Part 6: Technology and the future of gun ownership 41. Why do gun-makers get special economic protection? 42. World''s deadliest inventor: Mikhail Kalashnikov and his AK-47 43. What are ''ghost guns,'' a target of Biden''s anti-crime effort? 44. 3D-printed guns may be more dangerous to their users than targets 45. What makes a ''smart gun'' smart? Contributor Bios.