Gun Nation
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Gun Nation
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Author : Zed Nelson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Gun Nation written by Zed Nelson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.
Collection of b/w photographs depicting America's gun culture. Includes an introductory essay on the fight for gun control.
Gun Nation
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Gun Nation written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Gun control categories.
Gun Country
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Author : Andrew C. McKevitt
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2023-09-18
Gun Country written by Andrew C. McKevitt and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-18 with History categories.
Just as World War II transformed the United States into a global military and economic superpower, so too did it forge the gun country America is today. After 1945, war-ravaged European nations possessed large surpluses of mass-produced weapons, and American entrepreneurs seized the opportunity to buy used munitions for pennies on the dollar and resell them stateside. A booming consumer market made cheap guns accessible to millions of Americans, and rates of gun ownership and violence began to climb. Andrew C. McKevitt tells the history of this gun boom through the dynamics of consumer capitalism and Cold War ideology, the combination of which resulted in a vast number of Americans arming themselves to the teeth and centering their political identity on their guns. When gun control legislation emerged in the 1960s, many Americans, accustomed to the unregulated postwar bounty of cheap guns and fearful of Soviet invasion, domestic subversion, and urban uprisings, fiercely challenged it. Meanwhile, gun control groups were diverted from their abolitionist roots toward a conciliatory, fundraising-focused strategy that struggled to limit the stockpiling of firearms. Gun Country recasts the story of guns in postwar America as one of Cold War and racial anxieties, unfettered capitalism, and exceptional violence that continues to haunt us to this day.
Gun Nation
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Author : Helle Brodersen
language : da
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
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Gun Culture Facts And Figures
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Author : David Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
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Gun Culture Facts And Figures written by David Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
No nation on earth has a gun culture that quite compares to that of the United States. The U.S. accounts for about 5 percent of the world's population, yet it possesses nearly 50 percent of all guns on the planet. There are, in fact, more guns in the United States today than there are people, although only about one in three Americans reports owning a gun. Not only do Americans have far and away the most guns, they also have far and away the most gun crime and the most deaths by gun homicide or suicide.The Second Amendment promises freedom to own firearms, but this freedom is not absolute and has been subject to political negotiation for centuries. Today, a variety of lawmakers and politicians seek to expand or curtail the freedoms of the Second Amendment, aided or hampered by the influence of very powerful lobbies and interest groups. What's more, the United States has exported some of its gun culture abroad, and many nations across the world have been affected by the American right to bear arms.
One Nation Under Guns
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Author : Dominic Erdozain
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2024-01-30
One Nation Under Guns written by Dominic Erdozain and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-30 with Political Science categories.
This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms—and that this distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy. “At once eye-opening and enraging, One Nation Under Guns is that rare book that can help change the way we live in this country.”—Eddie S. Glaude Jr., bestselling author of Begin Again More than a hundred lives are lost to firearms every day in America. The cost is more than the numbers—it is the fear, the anxiety, the dread of public spaces that an armed society has created under the tortured rubric of freedom. But the norms of today are not the norms of American history or the values of its founders. They are the product of a gun culture that has imposed its vision on a sleeping nation. Historian Dominic Erdozain argues that we have wrongly ceded the big-picture argument on guns: As we parse legislation on background checks and automatic-weapons bans, we fail to ask what place guns should have in a functioning democracy. Taking readers on a brilliant historical journey, Erdozain shows how the founders feared the tyranny of individuals as much as the tyranny of kings—the idea that any person had a right to walk around armed was anathema to their notion of freedom and the peaceful republic they hoped to build. They wrote these ideas into the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, ideas that were subsequently affirmed by two centuries of jurisprudence. And yet the twin scourges of racism and nationalism would combine to create a darker American vision—a rogue and reckless freedom based on birth and blood. It was this freedom, not the liberty promised by the Constitution, that generated our modern gun culture, with its mystic conceptions of good guys and bad guys, innocence and guilt. By the time the U.S. Supreme Court reinvented the Second Amendment in 2008’s District of Columbia v. Heller, an opinion that Erdozain convincingly eviscerates, many Americans had already acceded to the fiction: the unfreedom of an armed society. To save our democracy, he argues, we must fight for the founders’ true idea of what it means to be free.
Gun Show Nation
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Author : Joan Burbick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Gun Show Nation written by Joan Burbick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Political Science categories.
"Looking at America from the floor of a gun show, Gun Show Nation answers the question posed by Michael Moore's hit documentary film Bowling for Columbine: why are Americans so obsessed with guns? And what can be done about it? Gun Show Nation goes beyond the issues of handgun bans and child-safety locks to delve into what the author sees as the heart of the matter-that owning a gun has come to be seen as a fundamental right in our democracy."--BOOK JACKET.
Gun
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Author : David E. Petzal
language : en
Publisher: Weldon Owen International
Release Date : 2013-11-05
Gun written by David E. Petzal and has been published by Weldon Owen International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
A collection of gorgeous photos celebrating five-hundred years of firearms, featuring the history, artistry, and evolving technology of the gun. Guns. For centuries, these beautiful, controversial, essential, and sometimes fearful machines have been an integral part of our lives. From the hand cannons and matchlock muskets of the 1500s to the latest military technology, this book celebrates the artistry, technology, cultural significance, and power of one-hundred iconic guns. Firearms enthusiasts, history buffs, and shooters of every stripe will find something to marvel at in this gorgeous full-color book.
Rampage Nation
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Author : Louis Klarevas
language : en
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Release Date : 2016-08-23
Rampage Nation written by Louis Klarevas and has been published by Prometheus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-23 with Social Science categories.
In the past decade, no individual act of violence has killed more people in the United States than the mass shooting. This well-researched, forcefully argued book answers some of the most pressing questions facing our society: Why do people go on killing sprees? Are gun-free zones magnets for deadly rampages? What can we do to curb the carnage of this disturbing form of firearm violence? Contrary to conventional wisdom, the author shows that gun possession often prods aggrieved, mentally unstable individuals to go on shooting sprees; these attacks largely occur in places where guns are not prohibited by law; and sensible gun-control measures like the federal Assault Weapons Ban—which helped drastically reduce rampage violence when it was in effect—are instrumental to keeping Americans safe from mass shootings in the future. To stem gun massacres, the author proposes several original policy prescriptions, ranging from the enactment of sensible firearm safety reforms to an overhaul of how the justice system investigates potential active-shooter threats and prosecutes violent crimes. Calling attention to the growing problem of mass shootings, Rampage Nation demonstrates that this unique form of gun violence is more than just a criminal justice offense or public health scourge. It is a threat to American security.
Guncrazy America
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Author : Frank N. Egerton
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2018-10-06
Guncrazy America written by Frank N. Egerton and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-06 with History categories.
The conclusion of this professor-historian (emeritus) is that our gun culture had its uses in establishing American civilization, as slavery did. But we came to recognize (after a bloody civil war) that slavery was a gigantic mistake, and now I think it’s time to realize that our gun culture was a similarly gigantic mistake, though of a different kind. And we need to do what we can to minimize its horrible impacts and move on to a more positive development of a humane civilization.