Title:
What we've become : living and dying in a country of arms / Jonathan M. Metzl.
ISBN:
9781324050254
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]
Physical Description:
x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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 -- [Bibliographical] notes (pages 311-353) -- Index.
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.
OCLC Number:
on1418843790
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