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1) Gun control
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
Explores the issue of gun control by placing opinions from a wide range of sources in a pro/con format. Features articles that express various perspectives on this topic
Author
Language
English
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Description
"This illuminating study traces the transformation of the right to arms from its inception in English and colonial American law to today's impassioned gun-control debate. As historian and legal scholar Patrick J. Charles shows, what the right to arms means to Americans, as well as what it legally protects, has changed drastically since its first appearance in the 1689 Declaration of Rights. Armed in America explores how and why the right to arms transformed...
3) Gun control
Author
Series
Publisher
Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A compilation of current and historical statistics with analysis on gun control, including a comprehensive summary of up-to-date research on the topic. Data are compiled from reports generated by branches of the U.S. government, information collected by major independent polling organizations and authoritative associations, and from professional journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and other reliable sources related to the subject.
6) 22 SECONDS
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 22
Language
English
Description
"22 seconds...until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge--or her life. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home. Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies: You talk, you die. Now it's Lindsay's...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The United States is in many ways a model for the world, yet for one of the most fundamental of all human concerns, the imperative to keep ourselves and our loved ones free from harm, American ingenuity has failed. Unique in all of the developed world, America is bathed in violence. Our churches and schools, our movie theaters and dance clubs and music festivals are no longer safe places to congregate. Our politics is consumed by fear and intimations...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Young people are suffering the most from the epidemic of gun violence - as early as kindergarten students are crouching behind locked doors during active shooter drills. Teens are galvanizing to speak up and fight for their right to be safe. They don't just want to get involved, they want to change the world. Enough Is Enough is a call to action for teens ready to lend their voices to the gun violence prevention movement. This handbook deftly explains...
10) Gun violence
Author
Publisher
Rosen Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Gun violence doesn't have to be an unapproachable topic. This hi/lo resource utilizes easy to read timelines and maps, as well as reflective photographs and online resources to deliver a comprehensive yet approachable guide to the complex issue of gun violence. Teens will gain insight into the history of gun violence as the text delves into the various social, economic, and cultural factors that have built the current landscape. Ending with an overview...
11) School shootings
Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Since 2009, there have been 288 school shootings in the United States. This is an alarming statistic for one of the safest, richest, and most powerful countries in the world. Whenever one of these senseless tragedies occurs, activists and political leaders attempt to push their agendas, calling for stricter gun control, or tighter security, or even for arming teachers. This valuable resource, containing diverse viewpoints written by authoritative...
12) How we ricochet
Author
Language
English
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Description
Betty, her sister and mother were all shopping at the mall when the shooting happened -- and although they all survived, none of them would be the same after. Betty watches her mother throw herself into activism and away from her family, while her outgoing sister becomes a shadow of her former self. Desperate for answers, Betty finds herself reaching out to the shooter's brother, but all it does is reveal that nothing in life is simple to understand...
13) Gun violence
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the reasons for and against gun control in the United States, especially in relation to violent crime.
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A blistering exposé of the National Rifle Association, revealing its people, power, corruption, and ongoing downfall, from acclaimed NPR investigative reporter Tim Mak"--
Once a grassroots club dedicated to gun safety, the NRA ballooned into a powerful lobbyist organization that maintained an iron hold on gun legislation in America. The millions in small fees from members across the country funded hidden, lavish lifestyles of designer suits, private...
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Language
English
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Description
This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day's...
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Language
English
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Description
"The National Rifle Association is unique in American life. Few other civic organizations are as old or as large. None is as controversial. It is largely due to the NRA that the U.S. gun policy differs so extremely--some would say so tragically--from that of every other developed nation. But, as Frank Smyth shows, the NRA has evolved from an organization concerned above all with marksmanship--and which supported most government efforts around gun...
Author
Language
English
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"Shannon Watts was a stay-at-home mom folding laundry when news of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary flashed across the television screen. Heartbroken and fed up, Watts decided to do something about it. [This book] is a riveting account of how one mother's cry for change grew into a national movement, Moms Demand Action, a powerful grassroots network with millions of supporters and local chapters in all fifty states. Watts has been called...
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"On October 1, 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada suffered the worst mass shooting in modern American history, resulting in 58 deaths and over 500 injured. It broke my heart. Las Vegas is my home. I felt like something needed to be done to help in a unique way."--JH WILLIAMS III, Artist and Curating Editor This "unique way" was the genesis of the WHERE WE LIVE anthology--a riveting collection of both fictional stories and actual eye-witness accounts told by...
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