This article identifies the two key issues in the Firearms and Violence Task Force of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence and briefly describes research and policy findings on these questions in the half century since the the report was published. The key issues were the impact of weapon dangerousness on the death rate from violence assault and the positive linkage between increases in civilian gun ownership and increasing use of guns in violence.

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50年后的美国生活中的枪支和暴力

本文确定了起因和预防暴力行为全国委员会枪支和暴力问题工作队中的两个关键问题，并简要介绍了自报告发布以来半个世纪以来对这些问题的研究和政策调查结果。关键问题是武器危险性对暴力袭击造成的死亡率的影响，以及民用枪支拥有量的增加与暴力中枪支使用量的增加之间的积极联系。