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What We've Become : Living and Dying in a Country of Arms by Jonathan M. Metzl (2024, Hardcover)

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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-10132405025X

ISBN-139781324050254

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Book TitleWhat We've Become : Living and Dying in a Country of Arms

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSociology / General, Civil Rights, Violence in Society

Publication Year2024

GenreLaw, Political Science, Social Science

AuthorJonathan M. Metzl

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight22.8 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

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Dewey Edition23

ReviewsA revelation. Compelled by the immensity of our national tragedy to question dearly held theories and his own medical expertise, Jonathan Metzl, puts forth an unflinching diagnosis of the origins of rampant gun violence. Dr. Metzl uncovers an epidemic with both a social and political etiology, the remedy for which will require an honest accounting of American society's racial fissures and courageous policy solutions. A brave book from a visionary thinker that will save lives., This extraordinary book takes a deep dive into an act of racialized aggression in Nashville to show how our collective failure to stop mass shootings betrays the democracy envisaged by the framers of our Constitution: a democracy where people with differing viewpoints solve common problems by peaceful means., Jonathan Metzl has done it again. This genre-changing book tells the story of a harrowing, racially charged mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee--powerfully rethinking many of the core assumptions that public health has traditionally tied to gun violence in this country. The implications of this vital work are immense, far reaching, and necessarily disruptive., This extraordinary book takes a deep dive into an act of racialized aggression in Nashville to?show how our collective failure to stop mass shootings?betrays the democracy envisaged by the framers of our Constitution: a democracy where?people?with differing viewpoints solve common problems by peaceful means., A revelation. Jonathan M. Metzl puts forth an unflinching diagnosis of the origins of rampant gun violence. A brave book from a visionary thinker that will save lives., Jonathan Metzl has his finger on the pulse of another critical blind spot in American culture. This time he turns his attention to how the gun control movement has misunderstood the ideological significance of firearms and mass shootings, over-investing in public health and ignoring the underlying motivations of race. This book will change the way we think about guns in America, and about the America armed and defined by guns., I know of few other thinkers who so consistently diagnoses what ails America. Jonathan Metzl has once again identified a cultural fault line in how we process care in this country and shown us its racialized dimensions. This is the clarion call everyone who professes concern about the state of guns in this country. As Metzl shows, the NRA has long known what the left has not -- the gun debate is won through hearts and minds and not statistics. If we stand a chance in hell of fighting back and remaking America in the image of gun safety, we need this book, now!, Jonathan M. Metzl probes the question many of us ask each time another mass shooting occurs: How can lawmakers allow the slaughter to continue unabated despite its obvious toll on human lives? An essential contribution to the raging national debate., We Americans find ourselves, quite literally and too often, staring down the barrel of a gun. The question now is how are we going to react--not just to protect our families but also our democracy. Through his analysis of the Waffle House shooting and a requisite examination of race, governance, imagination, and social interaction, Jonathan Metzl challenges all conventional notions of how we should respond to this fully loaded threat to our republic. What We've Become is must-read material for policymakers, changemakers and advocates. , We Americans find ourselves, quite literally and too often, staring down the barrel?of a gun. The question now is how are we going to react--not just to protect our?families but also our democracy. Through his analysis of the Waffle House shooting and a requisite examination of race, governance, imagination, and social interaction,?Jonathan Metzl challenges all conventional notions of how we should respond to this fully loaded threat to our republic. What We've Become is must-read material for policymakers, changemakers and advocates. , We've arrived at this critical moment, when we seem willingly to bear the lost lives of many thousands so that a minority of our citizens may buy, carry, sell, trade, exhibit, gift and shoot lethal weaponry... [Metzl] acknowledges the crosshatch of laws that keep guns flowing across state borders. He casts a wide net., In What We've Become, leading gun policy scholar Jonathan Metzl probes the question many of us ask each time another mass shooting occurs: how can lawmakers allow the slaughter to continue unabated despite its obvious toll on human lives? Metzl compellingly rejects the public health approach he once promoted, which frames gun violence as a biomedical problem and fails to grapple with the racism that shapes both its causes and proposed solutions. His call to see gun safety instead as a political issue in need of a social justice response makes an essential contribution to the raging national debate., What We've Become paints a dark picture of the hole we have dug for ourselves but also offers a set of tools for how to climb out of it., Jonathan?Metzl?has his finger on the pulse of another critical blind spot in American culture. This time he turns his attention to how the gun control movement has misunderstood the ideological significance of firearms and mass shootings, over-investing in public health and ignoring the underlying motivations of race. This book will change the way we think about guns in America, and about the America armed and defined by guns., Jonathan M. Metzl has his finger on the pulse of another critical blind spot in American culture. This book will change the way we think about guns in America., I know of few other thinkers who so consistently diagnose what ails America. This is the clarion call to everyone who professes concern about the state of guns in this country. If we stand a chance in hell of fighting back and remaking American in the image of gun safety, we need this book now!, Jonathan?Metzl has done it again. This genre-changing book tells the story of a harrowing, racially charged mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee--powerfully rethinking?many of the core assumptions that public health has?traditionally tied to gun violence in this country.?The implications of this vital work are?immense,?far reaching, and necessarily disruptive., Jonathan M. Metzl has done it again. The implications of this vital work are immense, far reaching, and necessarily disruptive., What We've Become is a must-read material for policymakers, changemakers, and advocates who are asking not just how do we protect our families, but how do we save our country?

Dewey Decimal303.60973

SynopsisWhen 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. In What We've Become , Metzl reckons both with the long history of distrust of public health and the larger forces--social, ideological, historical, racial, and political--that allow mass shootings to occur on a near daily basis in America. Looking closely at the cycle in which mass shootings lead to shock, horror, calls for action, and, ultimately, political gridlock, he explores what happens to the soul of a nation--and the meanings of safety and community--when we normalize violence as an acceptable trade-off for freedom. Mass shootings and our inability to stop them have become more than horrific crimes: they are an American national autobiography. This brilliant, piercing analysis points to mass shootings as a symptom of our most unresolved national conflicts. What We've Become ultimately sets us on the path of alliance forging, racial reckoning, and political power brokering we must take to put things right., 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. In What We've Become, Metzl reckons both with the long history of distrust of public health and the larger forces-social, ideological, historical, racial, and political-that allow mass shootings to occur on a near daily basis in America. Looking closely at the cycle in which mass shootings lead to shock, horror, calls for action, and, ultimately, political gridlock, he explores what happens to the soul of a nation-and the meanings of safety and community-when we normalize violence as an acceptable trade-off for freedom. Mass shootings and our inability to stop them have become more than horrific crimes: they are an American national autobiography. This brilliant, piercing analysis points to mass shootings as a symptom of our most unresolved national conflicts. What We've Become ultimately sets us on the path of alliance forging, racial reckoning, and political power brokering we must take to put things right.

LC Classification NumberHM1116.M4 2024