What we've become : living and dying in a country of arms / Jonathan M. Metzl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metzl, Jonathan, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass shootings--United States.

Mass shootings.

Firearms ownership--United States.

Firearms ownership.

Gun control--United States.

Gun control.

Firearms--Law and legislation--United States.

Firearms.

Physical Description:

x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

What we have become

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-353) and index.

ISBN:

9781324050254

132405025X

OCLC:

1418843790