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A 5 page research paper that summarizes and analyzes an article by James L. True and Glenn H. Utter of Lamar University, which offers a public policy administration perspective on the issues involved in gun control and their implication for public administrators. These authors take the position that the ongoing national debate over gun control and gun rights does not explain why national gun policy tends to seesaw in its approach. They maintain that punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) aids in comprehending gun policy formulation and the functions that the ideologically opposed forces play in this regard. The writer presents then discusses their approach. No additional sources cited.
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implication for public administrators. These authors take the position that the ongoing national debate over gun control and gun rights does not explain why national gun policy tends to seesaw
in its approach. They maintain that punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) aids in comprehending gun policy formulation and the functions that the ideologically opposed forces play in this regard. Their study
concludes that more Americans completely eschewing gun ownership, but that those who chose to say "yes" to guns are also saying "load me up" (True and Utter, 2002, p.
217). The authors begin with a brief history of gun legislation in the US since World War II. The Gun Control Act of 1968 created new controls and
restrictions on gun and ammunition sales and shipments. The Firearms Owners Protection Act of 1986 relaxed many of the controls previously imposed, and instead created new restrictions on the Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), which is the federal agency responsible for overseeing public compliance with federal gun policies; then, the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 again
imposed restrictions on gun purchases and also created new methods for implementing these restrictions (True and Utter, 2002). As this indicates, the authors demonstrate the seesaw pattern that national gun
policy has followed. They discuss each law in more detail, relating it to the historical events that propelled each piece of legislation. The authors then address PET, describing its main
principles and perspectives. This theoretical approach sees the political process at the subsystem level as being distinctly different from the process at the macro-political level. At the macro level, attention
is given to one large problem at a time. Institutions at this level are the President, the full Congress, the media and, sometimes, the Supreme Court. Macro-political forces do not,
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