CONTENTS
| Acknowledgments | vii | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction: An Overview of Lawsuits against the Gun Industry | 1 | ||
| timothy d. lytton | |||
| PART I | Perspectives on Gun Violence, Gun Control, | ||
| & the Gun Industry | |||
| 1. A Public Health Perspective on Gun Violence Prevention | 39 | ||
| julie samia mair, stephen teret, & | |||
| shannon frattaroli | |||
| 2. The Limited Importance of Gun Control | |||
| from a Criminological Perspective | 62 | ||
| don b. kates | |||
| 3. The American Gun Industry: Designing & | |||
| Marketing Increasingly Lethal Weapons | 84 | ||
| tom diaz | |||
| 4. A Cultural Critique of Gun Litigation | 105 | ||
| dan m. kahan, donald braman, & john gastil | |||
| PART II | Perspectives on Gun Litigation | ||
| 5. Private Lawyers, Public Lawsuits: Plaintiffs’ | |||
| Attorneys in Municipal Gun Litigation | 129 | ||
| howard m. erichson | |||
| vi ��� | Contents | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 6. The NRA, the Brady Campaign, & the Politics of Gun Litigation timothy d. lytton 7. Gun Litigation in the Mass Tort Context richard a. nagareda 8. Comparing Tobacco & Gun Litigation stephen d. sugarman | 152 176 196 | ||
| PART III | Gun Litigation as a Regulatory Response to Gun Violence | ||
| 9. Why Regulating Guns through Litigation Won’t Work peter h. schuck 10. The Complementary Role of Tort Litigation in Regulating the Gun Industry timothy d. lytton 11. Stubborn Information Problems & the Regulatory Bene‹ts of Gun Litigation wendy wagner 12. Liability Insurance & the Regulation of Firearms tom baker & thomas o. farrish | 225 250 271 292 | ||
| 13. Gun Litigation & the Constitution brannon p. denning Afterword timothy d. lytton | 315 339 | ||
| Notes Contributors | 355 415 | ||
| Table of Cases | 419 | ||
| Index | 423 | ||