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1) 22 seconds
Author
Series
Women's murder club volume 22
Pub. Date
2022.
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
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting who pushed back against the NRA and Congressional leaders and launched the singular grassroots March for Our Lives movement. Emma González called BS. David Hogg called out Adult America. The uprising had begun. Cameron Kasky immediately recruited a colorful band of theatre kids and rising activists and brought them together...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since the birth of the United States of America, the question of who can own a gun has been debated by passionate people on both sides of the argument. The Founding Fathers are no longer around to clarify exactly what they meant in the Second Amendment. As the country suffers an increasing number of public shootings in schools and beyond, the question of who should be able to own a gun becomes even more important for the safety of everyone in America....
Author
Series
Physical Desc
x, 280 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repeatedly bring the public discussion of gun control to a fever pitch, the topic has preoccupied citizens, public officials, and special interest groups for decades. The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know® delves into the issues that Americans debate when they talk about guns. With a balanced and broad-ranging...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck shines a spotlight on today's culture of violence and provides practical, timely, and fact-based answers to the most commonly heard gun-control arguments."--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
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...
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Special ed. ; Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Investigates the history and impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed, and how it has been constructed from the start to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable.
From the seventeenth century, when it was encoded into law that the enslaved could not own, carry, or use a firearm whatsoever, until today, with measures to expand and curtail gun ownership aimed disproportionately at the African American population, the right to bear...
10) We can be heroes
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a girl is killed by her ex-boyfriend in a school shooting, her two best friends attempt to memorialize her in a town economically dependent on the shooter's family"--
Beck and Vivian never could stand each other, but they always tried their best for their mutual friend, Cassie. Then Cassie is killed at school by her ex-boyfriend Nicholas, the teen heir to the Bell Firearms fortune. After the town moves on from Cassie's murder too fast, Beck...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxv, 305 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Meadow was murdered in the Parkland, Florida high school shooting, teamed up with education expert Max Eden to find out how the Parkland shooter slipped through the cracks. They argue that the policies pioneered in Broward plague American schools, and make school shootings more likely.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
"By the president of the prestigious Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the life story of the most controversial, volatile, misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights. At a time of renewed debate over guns in America, what does the Second Amendment mean? This book looks at history to provide some surprising, illuminating answers. The Amendment was written to calm public fear that the new national government would crush the state militias...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 473 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight, easy-to-use weapon that could replace the M1s touted by soldiers in World War II. What he did create was a lethal handheld icon of the American century. In American Gun, the veteran Wall Street Journal reporters Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson track the AR-15 from inception...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
xiv, 218 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, many teenagers channeled their rage and sorrow into action, and went on to create one of the largest youth-led movements in global history. This collection of essays address the events of February 14, 2018, and continues the ongoing fight to end gun violence in the United States. -- adapted from back cover.
Glimmer of Hope is the official, definitive book from The March for Our Lives founders....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
165 pages ; 16 cm
Language
English
Description
"From two survivors of the Parkland, Florida, shooting comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement. On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his fourteen-year-old sister, Lauren, went to school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, like any normal Wednesday. That day, of course, the world changed. By the next morning, with seventeen classmates and faculty dead, they had joined...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Nothing ever happens in a sleepy American town like Middlebrook. Until the shocking events of one hot Saturday afternoon when, at a back-to-school party, nine children sneak off to a barn. And one child is shot by another. The press are asking questions. About the type of parents who let their children play unsupervised in a house with guns. About how damaged a child must be to commit this kind of atrocity. Two questions are the most urgent, and the...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, An Imprint of HarperCollins ublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Based on the acclaimed series--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--an intimate account of the devastating effects of gun violence on our nation's children, and a call to action for a new way forward. In 2017, seven-year-old Ava in South Carolina wrote a letter to Tyshaun, an eight-year-old boy from Washington, DC. She asked him to be her pen pal; Ava thought they could help each other. The kids had a tragic connection--both were traumatized by gun...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Draws on articles, anecdotes, and quotes from "USA Today" to explore the issue of gun control, discussing viewpoints from both sides of the debate and exploring the history of gun ownership in the United States and current federal, state, and local laws.
20) Gun shy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Ben Rehder's Blanco County, Texas, where the right to bear arms is about to go very, very wrong...in Gun Shy
The National Weapons Alliance rally in support of every American's right to bear arms is meant to garner huge publicity. And, the host of the event is none other than the NWA's newest spokesman, handsome country superstar Mitch Campbell.
What nobody suspects is that the Stetson-wearing, gun-toting, bull-riding Campbell is a fraud....