One nation under guns : how gun culture distorts our history and threatens our democracy / Dominic Erdozain.
"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....
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown,
[2024]
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Physical Description: | xviii, 267 pages ; 22 cm |
Variant Title: |
How gun culture distorts our history and threatens our democracy |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Prologue: You're next
- The myth of law-abiding citizen
- Liberty as life: the second amendment you never knew
- The pistol and the lash
- Patriots
- The birth of a gun lobby
- Guns against America
- A state of war
- Death by dictionary
- The future of freedom.