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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiii, 473 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"The epic history of the AR-15 rifle, America's most controversial weapon"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
386 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
Presents a searing investigation into the role of the drug trade in the black market for firearms, both within the U.S. and across the U.S.-Mexican border.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A former member of the NRA discusses the decades-long incompetence at the organization, exposing the intentional toxic messaging in the fight against gun control and detailing how the discord it created allowed the organization to secure the Trump presidency.
11) The last gun: how changes in the gun industry are killing Americans and what it will take to stop it
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newtown, Connecticut. Aurora, Colorado. Both have entered our collective memory as sites of unimaginable heartbreak and mass slaughter perpetrated by lone gunmen. Meanwhile, cities such as Chicago and Washington, D.C., are dealing with the painful, everyday reality of record rates of gun-related deaths. By any account, gun violence in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. A widely respected activist and policy analyst-as well as a former...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Newtown school shooting. Aurora theater shooting. Tucson supermarket shooting. Are visceral reactions to tragedies trumping the words of our forefathers? Should we allow fear and the growing concern over public safety to limit our civil liberties? Dead Patriot Films presents Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire, a documentary that brings audiences to the center of the controversy over the issue that is dividing our nation - gun control. Narrated by...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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?...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xx, 300 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the complexities of gun violence in America by explaining the myths, facts, causes, and obstacles surrounding the issue, and provides resources for students to get involved in gun safety activism.
15) All these sons
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On Chicago's South and West sides, gun violence is destroying countless lives. Two men dedicate their lives to educating, empowering, and healing young Black men at high risk of being victims or perpetrators of shootings.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"When a naked, mentally ill white man with an AR-15 killed four young adults of color at a Waffle House, Nashville-based physician and gun policy scholar Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl once again advocated for commonsense gun reform. But as he peeled back evidence surrounding the racially charged mass shooting, a shocking question emerged: Did the public health approach he had championed for years have it all wrong? Long at the forefront of a movement advocating...
Series
Criterion collection volume 928
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, the intrepid filmmaker Michael Moore set out to investigate the long, often volatile love affair between Americans and their firearms, uncovering the pervasive culture of fear that keeps the nation locked and loaded. Equipped with a camera and a microphone, Moore follows the trail of bullets from Littleton, Colorado and Flint, Michigan, all the way to Kmart's midwestern headquarters and NRA...
18) After Parkland
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 that killed 17 people and launched a nationwide student movement, filmmakers Emily Taguchi and Jake Lefferman embedded with students and families whose lives were forever transformed. They include senior David Hogg, who recorded his class during the attack and became the face of the Never Again movement; freshman Brooke Harrison, who was in the first classroom under attack;...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Visiting Martin Luther King, Jr. at the peak of the civil rights movement, the journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. Just for self-defense, King assured him. One of King's advisors remembered the reverend's home as an arsenal. Like King, many nonviolent activists embraced their constitutional right to self-protection-yet this crucial dimension of the civil rights struggle has been long ignored. In This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xviii, 267 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation's fathers did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms--and that this intentional distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy. Hundreds of lives are lost to firearms every day in America. The cost is more than the numbers--it is also the fear, the anxiety, the dread of public spaces that an armed society has created under the tortured rubric...
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