What we've become : living and dying in a country of arms / Jonathan M. Metzl.
What we've become : living and dying in a country of arms / Jonathan M. Metzl.
Alternate Title
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What we have become
By
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Metzl, Jonathan, 1964-
Publication Date
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2024
Publication Information
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New York : W.W. Norton & Company,
Physical Description
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x, 372 p. : ill.
Subject Term
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Mass shootings -- United States.
Firearms ownership -- United States.
Gun control -- United States.
Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Firearms ownership.
Gun control.
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-353) and index.
Summary
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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 for gun reform as a matter of public health, Metzl has been on constant media call in the aftermath of fatal shootings. But the 2018 Nashville killings led him on a path toward recognizing the limitations of biomedical frameworks for fully diagnosing or treating the impassioned complexities of American gun politics. As he came to understand it, public health is a harder sell in a nation that fundamentally disagrees about what it means to be safe, healthy, or free.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781324050254
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