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"Touches on all aspects of the gun issue in this country. Gives great voice to that feeling...that something real must be done." —San Diego Union-Tribune
"One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years." —Washington Post Book World
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 end, he had killed one teacher and severely wounded another.
In Lethal Passage Erik Larson shows us how a disturbed teenager was able to buy a weapon advertised as "the gun that made the eighties roar." The result is a book that can — and should — save lives, and that has already become an essential text in the gun-control debate.
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780307803313
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- ISBN: 9780307803313
- File size: 3449 KB
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- English
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January 16, 1995
Wall Street Journal reporter Larson has written a new afterword to this timely study of American gun culture. -
Starred review from January 3, 1994
In this valiant, innovative, effective and timely study, Wall Street Journal reporter Larson considers the case of Nicholas Elliot, 16, who went on a shooting rampage on December 16, 1988, in the Virginia religious high school he attended, leaving one teacher dead. The author concentrates not on the teenager, however, but on the gun he fired, a semiautomatic Cobray M-11/9. Larson uses the pistol to explore the history of America's love for guns and to show how firearms manufacturers, dealers, book and magazine publishers, aided by the ``paranoid, Constitution-thumping'' National Rifle Association and the media, all bear responsibility for the culture of ``non-responsibility'' concerning guns. He concludes by proposing a five-part omnibus law, the Life and Liberty Preservation Act, which, he persuasively argues, would close most of the loopholes in current legislation. Author tour.
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