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Chapter 9: The Civilians

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http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/H-Research_Notes/SAS-Research-Note-9.pdf

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/08/28/us-world-firearms-idUSL2834893820070828

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More specifically – 90 guns per 100 people.
http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/about-us/highlights/highlight-research-note-9-estimating-civilian-owned-firearms.html

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http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/H-Research_Notes/SAS-Research-Note-9.pdf

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Conversation with leading firearm prop industry expert.

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http://www.airgunshooting.co.uk/expert-advice/airgun_law_in_the_uk_1_1111764

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A law enacted in 2005 regulating the use of weapons decreed that only the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of National Defense were permitted to operate firing ranges in Cambodia.

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/dispatches/features/2004/dispatches_from_cambodia/gunshopping_in_phnom_penh.html

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http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2006/en/Small-Arms-Survey-2006-Chapter-05-EN.pdf
;
http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/cambodia

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http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32842.pdf
– this works out at 114 million handguns, 110 million rifles, and 86 million shotguns. The second country in the world in terms of gun ownership, Yemen, has significantly fewer – about 55 firearms per 100 people. At the other end of the spectrum is Japan, where there is less than one firearm for every 100 people.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2610545/
; putting it simply, it’s that guy in Alabama – with a basement filled with fourteen handguns, twelve rifles and nineteen shotguns – that helps make up these huge figures.

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http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/dec/17/how-many-guns-us

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http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/05/arkansas-to-allow-concealed-guns-in-churches/

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http://www.salon.com/2012/12/18/7_craziest_gun_laws_in_america/

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In the state of Montana a long gun can be sold to a fourteen-year-old for hunting.
http://smartgunlaws.org/minimum-age-to-purchase-possess-fire-arms-policy-summary/

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/missouri-republican-wants-to-make-it-a-felony-for-his-fellow-lawmakers-to-propose-gun-laws

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/23/nelson-georgia-guns_n_3805292. html

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The thinking behind this argument is succinctly put forward in this report:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/08/which-of-the-11-american-nations-do-you-live-in/

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http://www.nssf.org/PDF/research/TargetShootingInAmericaReport.pdf

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http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/features/exposed-deadly-us-cult-of-the-sniper-1-2438333

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Including homicides, suicides and accidental deaths.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-winkler/did-the-wild-west-have-mo_b_956035.html
; modern-day Tombstone has fewer restrictive gun laws than its lawless Old West equivalent.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/2002/events/shooting.shtml

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http://www.nra.org.uk/common/asp/general/history1.asp?site=NRA

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Except for St Louis in 1904 and Amsterdam in 1928.
http://www.teamgb.com/summer-sports/shooting

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From 1908 to 1948 Olympic shooters competed in Running Deer events. There competitors fired at moving deer silhouettes from 100 metres away.
They scored points by hitting one of three concentric circles in the deer’s vital organs.
https://www.usashooting.org/library/Olympic/Shooting_History.pdf

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http://www.scotsman.com/sport/final-curtain-the-last-live-pigeon-shooting-event-at-the-olympic-games-1900-1-1085923

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http://www.topendsports.com/events/discontinued/shooting-duelling-pistol.htm

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In the rifle and pistol classes shooters fired at ten-ring targets and in the shotgun events they aimed at clay targets, released on a shooter’s command.

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http://www.olympic.org/shooting-equipment-and-history?tab=history

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http://www.olympic.org/karoly-takacs

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Homicide counts and rates, time series 2000–12;
http://www.unodc.org/gsh/en/data.html

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http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/iceland

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Of a population of 325,000 Iceland have only 136 people in prison. The US may have a population 1,000 times that of Iceland but it has 2.2 million people in prison; per capita this is about 1,500 times greater than in Iceland.

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http://www.amren.com/news/2013/05/why-is-violent-crime-so-rare-in-iceland/

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http://commodityhq.com/commodity/alternatives/antique-guns/

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http://www.mnh.si.edu/onehundredyears/expeditions/SI-Roosevelt_Expedition.html

Chapter 10: The Hunters

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http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/12/timeline-somalia-1991-2008/307190/

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/somalia/1444828/British-aid-couple-killed-at-Somali-school.html

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The Fourth Council of the Lateran of 1215, held under Pope Innocent III, decreed: ‘We interdict hunting or hawking to all clerics.’

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Hunter-gatherers still exist: in the Amazon (Aché); Africa (the San people and the Hadza of Tanzania); New Guinea (the Fayu); Thailand and Laos (the Mlabri); and Sri Lanka (the Vedda); not to mention a handful of uncontacted peoples.

5
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2508209/Winchester-Deadly-Passion-presenter-Melissa-Bachman-sparks-outrage-posing-lion-shot-dead.html

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The possible caveat is that a hunted animal might be shot and injured and not killed outright by a huntsman’s bullet. But then again many animals may sense their looming death when they are herded into an abattoir.

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http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/04/daily-chart-17

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http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/dec/01/nature-urbanisation-david-attenborough

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26140827

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http://dianamandache.com/auction-shotgun-king-of-romania/

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http://www.face.eu/sites/default/files/documents/english/face_annual_report_2013_en.pdf

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http://www.face.eu/sites/default/files/documents/english/position_paper_hunttour_-_en.pdf

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2007/11/packing_heat_in_helsinki.html

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http://www.face.eu/sites/default/files/attachments/data_hunters-region_sept_2010.pdf

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http://www.conservationforce.org/role4.html
;
http://www.nssf.org/PDF/research/HuntingInAmerica_EconomicForceForConservation.pdf

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http://www.gallup.com/poll/20098/gun-ownership-use-america.aspx

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At least this was the case in 2004, and shooting has become more popular since then.
http://www.nraila.org/news-issues/fact-sheets/2004/nra-ila-hunting-fact-card.aspx

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The term appears as early as 1748 in the journal of Conrad Weiser, who wrote, while travelling through ‘Indian territory’ (in what is now Ohio) in 1748: ‘He has been robbed of the value of 300 Bucks.’

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http://www.nssf.org/PDF/research/HuntingInAmerica_EconomicForceForConservation.pdf

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$37.9 billion (in 2011):
http://www.ewebmarketing.com.au/blog/google-rakes-in-37-9-billion-in-revenue-for-2011/

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http://econpost.com/vermonteconomy/vermont-gdp-size-rank

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http://nssf.org/newsroom/releases/show.cfm?PR=081512_USFWS.cfm&path=2012

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http://www.ihea.com
;
http://www.gunbabygun.com/gun-baby-gun/data-shows-hidden-human-cost-hunting-us-80-gun-deaths-year/

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20204594

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/im-experiencing-austerity-as-well-says-princess-michael-of-kent-8993437.html

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http://www.monbiot.com/2014/04/28/the-shooting-party/

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http://news.wildlife.org/twp/game-ranching-in-south-africa/

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http://www.africanindaba.com/2013/09/some-interesting-facts-about-the-hunting-industry-in-south-africa/

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http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/16/us/black-rhino-hunting-permit/

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http://www.ifaw.org/sites/default/files/Lions%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf

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Others take it one step further and want to bag the Tiny Ten (the damara dik-dik, the blue, grey and red duiker, the southern and northern grysbok, the klipspringer, oribi, steenbok and suni).

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http://news.wildlife.org/twp/game-ranching-in-south-africa/

Chapter 11: The Sex Pistols

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http://www.sigsauer.com/CatalogProductList/pistols-mosquito.aspx

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The record for most kills achieved by a female sniper is held by Lyudmila M. Pavlichenko, a Russian sniper in WWII. She is credited with killing 309 enemy soldiers.

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http://www.wired.com/2008/11/return-of-white/
;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaeQeGpetvA#t=52

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1411077/A-snipers-life.html

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http://www.snopes.com/medical/doctor/drruth.asp

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http://www.gallup.com/poll/160223/men-married-southerners-likely-gun-owners.aspx
;
http://www.people-press.org/2013/03/12/section-3-gun-ownership-trends-and-demographics/

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Data from the National Department of Arms and Explosives on applications for firearms licences, 2008–09;
http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2013/en/Small-Arms-Survey-2013-Chapter-2-EN.pdf

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http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/dec/18/what-are-the-best-paid-jobs-uk-2013

9
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Lawrence Mishel, Josh Bivens, Elise Gould, Heidi Shierholz,
The State of Working America
, 12th edition (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012).

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http://www.aauw.org/research/the-simple-truth-about-the-gender-pay-gap/

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http://youliveyourlife.com

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http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/154225

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http://store.waltherarms.com/very-tough-ppx-shirt.html

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http://www.salon.com/2012/12/17/bushmasters_horrible_ad_campaign/

15
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Small Arms Survey,
Unfinished Business
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 317;
http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2006/en/Small-Arms-Survey-2006-Chapter-12-EN.pdf

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http://kdvr.com/2012/12/28/colorado-columnist-assault-rifle-owners-have-tiny-penises/

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http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-03-08/how-brazil-exploited-sexual-insecurity-to-curb-guns-an-interview-with-antonio-bandeira

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Stephen Marche has written a very good article on this and must take credit for these thoughts:
http://www.esquire.com/features/thousand-words-on-culture/guns-are-beautiful-0313

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16866740
;
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/health/09guns.html?_r=0

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https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/handle/2134/5932

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The ratios are 9.7 versus 2.7 per 100,000. It is the highest in the Americas (29.3 per 100,000 males), where it is nearly seven times higher than in Asia, Europe and Oceania (all under 4.5 per 100,000 males);
https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/GSH2013/2014_GLOBAL_HOMICIDE_BOOK_web.pdf
p. 13

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-muggah/how-to-end-brazils-homici_b_4556945.html

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http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/world_report/en

24
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Owen Greene and Nicholas Marsh (eds.),
Small Arms, Crime and Conflict: Global Governance and the Threat of Armed Violence
(London: Routledge, 2011) p. 48.

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http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/86/9/07-043489/en/
. One review did find out that, in China, more women killed themselves than men:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1730718/pdf/v007p00104.pdf

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As of January 2015, if you do this, please make sure you place these phrases between quotation marks to search for the exact text on Google.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/mexico/6409484/Mexican-city-is-murder-capital-of-the-world.html
;
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/the-mexican-undead-toward-a-new-history-of-the-%E2%80%9Cdrug-war%E2%80%9D-killing-fields

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In 2012 in Latin American and the Caribbean, 91 per cent of homicide victims (101,041 cases) were men, and 9 per cent women (9,704 cases):
https://aoav.org.uk/2014/homicides-in-central-america-up-99-per-cent/

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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1112308
;
http://texas-center.tamiu.edu/PDF_BR/V7/v7-Albuquerque.pdf

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Between 1990 and 2005.

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http://www.texasobserver.org/qa-molly-molloy-story-juarez-femicides-myth/

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Based on a 2011 homicide rate of 7.8 per 100,000 in Pakistan, 5.1 per 100,000 in USA, and 1.03 in the UK. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,
Homicide in 207 Countries. Global Study on Homicide 2011: Trends, Context, Data; Statistical Annex
(Vienna: UNODC, 2011) and historical population data, United States Census Bureau (USCB) International Data Base (Suitland, MD: US Census Bureau Population Division).

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http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6484.htm

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http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/16/it’s-a-girl-the-three-deadliest-words-in-the-world/

35
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http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/29/opinion/giffords-gun-violence-congress/
; in the US, firearm assaults on female family members, and intimate acquaintances are approximately twelve times more likely to result in death than assaults using other weapons.

36
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/18/guns-domestic-abuse_n_5506643.html

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http://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GunsDomesticViolence2.pdf

38
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He made this remark in a speech at the Conservative Political Action
Committee:
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/15/at_cpac_wayne_lapierre_tackles_rape/

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http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1814426#r4-6

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http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2013/en/Small-Arms-Survey-2013-Chapter-2-EN.pdf

41
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Ibid.

42
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11991417

43
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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/18/guns-make-domestic-violence-deadlier/198942

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http://ajl.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/02/01/1559827610396294.abstract

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/9969670/Do-guns-make-women-any-safer.html
;
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/5tabledatadecpdf/table_5_crime_in_the_united_states_by_state_2012.xls

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D.J. Wiebe, ‘Homicide and Suicide Risks Associated with Firearms in the Home: A National Case-Control Study’,
Annals of Emergency Medicine
, Volume 41, January-June 2003.

47
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France Winddance Twine,
Girls With Guns: Firearms, Feminism, and Militarism
(London: Routledge, 2013), p. 8.

48
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http://www.gallup.com/poll/150353/self-reported-gun-ownership-highest-1993.aspx

49
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24crime.html?_r=0

50
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There are twenty-two of these
Double Elvis (Ferus Type)
silkscreens; one sold in 2012 at Sotheby’s in New York for more than $37 million – shy of the $50 million that Sotheby’s had predicted it might fetch.

51
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I later learned that there was also Pino Pascali’s
Machine Gun
and Gino Severinis’
Armoured Train in Action
at MOMA but saw neither.

52
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Credit must go fully to Barbara Eldredge for many of these observations, outlined in her powerful postgraduate thesis:
http://museummonger.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/barbaraeldredge_thesis_shortversion.pdf

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Calvin Tompkins,
Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
(New York: Dutton, 1973), p. 157.

54
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http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search?when=A.D.+1900-present&deptids=4&ft=*&rpp=30&pg=2

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Paola Antonelli, interview by Barbara Eldredge, 29 November 2012, Museum of Modern Art, New York:
http://museummonger.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/barbaraeldredge_thesis_shortversion.pdf
, p. 28; Paola may have changed her mind a little since, as she recently curated a MOMA exhibition called ‘Design and Violence’:
http://designandviolence.moma.org/about/

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Credit to Landon Y. Jones for these observations:
http://www.washington-post.com/opinions/loaded-language-the-gun-metaphors-that-pervade-our-everyday-slang/2014/04/18/40c4053c-c3ed-11e3-b574-f8748871856a_story.html

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According to a study conducted by researchers at Ohio State University and Annenberg Public Policy Center. The study looked at 945 movies, including the top thirty films at the box office every year from 1950 to 2012. Researchers found that, on average, violence with guns occurs more than twice an hour in both PG-13 and R-rated pics:
http://variety.com/2013/film/news/report-gun-violence-in-pg-13-movies-higher-than-r-rated-films-1200818892/

58
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http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/12/21/nra-only-way-to-stop-a-bad-guy-with-a-gun-is-with-a-good-guy-with-a-gun/

59
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http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/GUIC.PDF

60
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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/nra-hollywood-guns-movies-glock-clint-eastwood

61
.

Kerry Segrave,
Product Placement in Hollywood Films: A History
, (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2004) p. 207.

62
.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/nra-hollywood-guns-movies-glock-clint-eastwood

63
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http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/124/5/1495.full
; they include the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association, in addition to American Academy of Pediatrics.

64
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http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/11/06/peds.2013-1600.abstract

65
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sandy-hook-shooter-linked-violent-404576

66
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j-vrxGXSXE

67
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http://interpersonalresearch.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/4/0/10405979/ppmc_-_vvgs_and_real-world_violence.pdf

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI1fNjdeOvY#t=46

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