What we've become : living and dying in a country of arms /
"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 s...
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. The seventeenth count. Jesus loves me ; The seventeenth count ; Fait accompli
- Part 2. The insanity of the system. Elllipsis ; Enter public health ; He did not want to hurt Taylor Swift or anyone else ; America is the biggest gang in the world ; The terms of the debate ; If you tell it forward ; The insanity of the system ; Heaven's gate ; Repetition compulsion ; Sovereign ; Travis assisted us in retrieving all his weapons and ammunition ; We let go of balloons ; Everybody knew ; Complete darkness ; Below the dickey line ; In cold blood ; If you needed something, he was there for you ; A public health of consequence ; In the name of the father ; The chase
- Part 3. The scene of the crime. Waffle House ; Forty-two seconds ; Pussy killed my dawg ; A world of quiet and broken glass ; Waffle House shooting : full press conference with hero who stopped gunman ; The underbrush ; In memoriam
- Part 4. The reckoning. Health ; Race ; Justice ; Where do we go from here? ; Epilogue: The guns of New York and the war of Southern aggression.
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.
