Introduction -- Guns as a global issue -- Safe European home? -- Gun crime in the UK : the supply-side story -- Consequences of UK gun crime : politics, policy and policing -- The land of the free and the home of the gun -- American exceptionalism? : weaponising the neo-liberal homeland -- American gun crime : themes and issues, violences and silences -- "Tell me why I don't like Mondays" : school and "rampage" shootings -- Global dimensions -- The "American dream" and the kalashnikov nightmare -- When the shooting stops : from national responses to global arms control -- Conclusion.