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Crooker, Constance. Gun Control and Gun Rights. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.

Constance Crooker use to practice law, her main focus was defense of gun crimes. Before she retired she had her own private practice mainly involved criminal defense. The stakeholder that Crooker represents is lawyers or those directly dealing with the law. The audience for her book “Gun Control and Gun Rights” is to anyone who is interested in viewing both sides of the gun control debate. Crooker’s purpose in this book is to show the positive and negative effects on gun control. She balances both views by using theories, looking back throughout history, and talking to other politicians. She choose to add facts about gun rights groups and talks about different gun control laws show that this debate will not end anytime soon. This book allows readers to formulate their own opinion, this will be a useful source to help my opinion be unbiased.

Kleck, Gary. Targeting Guns. Hawthorne, NY: Walter de Gruyter Inc, 1997.

Gary Kleck is a Professor at the University of Florida, in the criminology department. He represents one of many researchers in Criminal Justice. The author’s audience is aimed at those who agree there should be gun control. He also talks to those against gun control and try to get them to agree with him. Kleck’s purpose is on the debate of gun control. He uses research, statistics, and real life examples to show how gun control would be a good thing. He does leave out how gun control could be a bad thing, mainly because his opinion for gun control is so strong. This source will be very useful for my research paper because of how in depth he goes and he is a credited source with good facts.

Spitzer, Robert. The Politics of Gun Control. 2nd. Chappaqua, NY: Seven Bridges Press, 1998.

Robert Spitzer is a Political Scientist. He received his PH.D from Cornell University. He is a stakeholder for those interested in politics. His audience is to anyone who wants to be more informed on gun rights and how groups for gun control are growing. He looks into the history of gun rights more than any other author I have used so far. He looks into the positive and the negative effects of gun rights. He explores why gun control is such a huge debate between people. This is a helpful source because it shows the history of guns and takes a closer look at the laws regarding gun rights.

These three sources are my best sources because they focus primarily on my question on whether guns cause citizens more harm or make them safer?. I feel like these sources did a good job of exploring the debate on gun control. They did make me questions if guns make us safer, and made me want to focus on the negative effects on guns. They are helpful because they explore the positive and negative effects on gun control so it allows me to see both sides of the argument.