Download or read book Town Gun written by Colin D. Willock and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Town Gun written by Colin Willock and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment written by Thom Hartmann and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, looks at the real history of guns in America and what we can do to limit both their lethal impact and the power of the gun lobby. Taking his typically in-depth, historically informed view, Thom Hartmann examines the brutal role guns have played in American history, from the genocide of the Native Americans to the enforcement of slavery (Slave Patrols are in fact the Second Amendment's “well-regulated militias”) and the racist post–Civil War social order. He shows how the NRA and conservative Supreme Court justices used specious logic to invent a virtually unlimited individual right to own guns, which has enabled the ever-growing number of mass shootings in the United States. But Hartmann also identifies a handful of powerful, commonsense solutions that would break the power of the gun lobby and restore the understanding of the Second Amendment that the Framers of the Constitution intended. This is the kind of brief, brilliant analysis for which Hartmann is justly renowned.

Download or read book Gun Control written by The New York Times Editorial Staff and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the spate of mass shootings in schools and crowded public venues in recent decades, gun control in the United States has become a perennial topic in the national conversation. Conflicts in the debate on gun control include the Second Amendment, the NRA, common sense gun laws, public safety, and more. Through this collection of articles, readers will witness how the discussion of gun control has evolved from the 1960s through today, from the political assassinations of significant figures such as John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. to the Orlando nightclub massacre and the school shooting in Parkland, Florida in 2018.

Download or read book Son of a Gun written by Justin St. Germain and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001. Debbie St. Germain’s death, apparently at the hands of her fifth husband, is a passing curiosity. “A real-life old West murder mystery,” the local TV announcers intone, while barroom gossips snicker cruelly. But for her twenty-year-old son, Justin St. Germain, the tragedy marks the line that separates his world into before and after. Distancing himself from the legendary town of his childhood, Justin makes another life a world away in San Francisco and achieves all the surface successes that would have filled his mother with pride. Yet years later he’s still sleeping with a loaded rifle under his bed. Ultimately, he is pulled back to the desert landscape of his childhood on a search to make sense of the unfathomable. What made his mother, a onetime army paratrooper, the type of woman who would stand up to any man except the men she was in love with? What led her to move from place to place, man to man, job to job, until finally she found herself in a desperate and deteriorating situation, living on an isolated patch of desert with an unstable ex-cop? Justin’s journey takes him back to the ghost town of Wyatt Earp, to the trailers he and Debbie shared, to the string of stepfathers who were a constant, sometimes threatening presence in his life, to a harsh world on the margins full of men and women all struggling to define what family means. He decides to confront people from his past and delve into the police records in an attempt to make sense of his mother’s life and death. All the while he tries to be the type of man she would have wanted him to be. Praise for Son of a Gun “[A] spectacular memoir . . . calls to mind two others of the past decade: J. R. Moehringer’s Tender Bar and Nick Flynn’s Another Bull____ Night in Suck City. All three are about boys becoming men in a broken world. . . . [What] might have been . . . in the hands of a lesser writer, the book’s main point . . . [is] amplified from a tale of personal loss and grief into a parable for our time and our nation. . . . If the brilliance of Son of a Gun lies in its restraint, its importance lies in the generosity of the author’s insights.”—Alexandra Fuller, The New York Times Book Review “[A] gritty, enthralling new memoir . . . St. Germain has created a work of austere, luminous beauty. . . . In his understated, eloquent way, St. Germain makes you feel the heat, taste the dust, see those shimmering streets. By the end of the book, you know his mother, even though you never met her. And like the author, you will mourn her forever.”—NPR “If St. Germain had stopped at examining his mother’s psycho-social risk factors and how her murder affected him, this would still be a fine, moving memoir. But it’s his further probing—into the culture of guns, violence, and manhood that informed their lives in his hometown, Tombstone, Ariz.—that transforms the book, elevating the stakes from personal pain to larger, important questions of what ails our society.”—The Boston Globe “A visceral, compelling portrait of [St. Germain’s] mother and the violent culture that claimed her.”—Entertainment Weekly

Download or read book Urban Gun Violence written by Melvin Delgado and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gun violence is a national threat and no more so than in the nation's urban communities, particularly taking its toll on people of color. Urban violence focused self-help organizations are vehicles for the dead to speak to us, and let us not forget that they once lived among us. These voices get captured and amplified through these organizations - their family become our family. The headlines their deaths created are not allowed to get relegated to history and continue to live giving meaning to a profound social justice cause. This book honors those who have died and continuing to give voice to their lives and preventing others from joining this chorus. The theme that we must forgive ourselves before we can forgive the offender is strong and pervasive among those who are survivors and engaged in self-help initiatives"--

Download or read book Only Gun in Town written by Kenneth L. Olsen and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Small Town Gun written by Dan Claymaker and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grover Trute sat as judge and jury in the town of Sainted, and stood by impassively when he ordered his gunslinging executioners to hang a man. But echoes of the innocent came back to haunt him and with them, the shadowing presence of a nameless stranger ...

Download or read book Trail Town Guns written by Jackson Cole and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.

Download or read book Six Gun Justice written by Eugene Moser and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-06-19 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book titled 'Six Gun Justice' is a fictional account of the life of the main character, Jim Vogt. The story begins with Jim and his father are off hunting and a tragedy happens to his mother and brother. A group of evil men rapes and murders the mother and takes Jim's young brother Peter off to sell into slavery. Jim is sent to his uncle Martin to live, while the father tries to track down the evil men. Fifteen years later, while living in Texas, tragedy again strikes Jim's loved ones. His pregnant wife is raped and murdered and he sets out on a trail of revenge. It takes a long time, but he tracks down the criminals and metes out his own brand of justice on them. On his travels he meets and falls in love, and meets someone who knows his brother. He settles down with his new wife and one day his long lost brother appears at his door. He stays with Jim for a period of time. He then sets out on his own and marries. He takes on the job of sheriff. He has some trouble with a local rancher and calls on Jim for help. Peter and his wife then travel to California. At this time Jim receives a letter from his long missing father, who happens to live in California. Jim is able to contact both his father and brother and arranges for them to return back to his ranch. The family is reunited and a new generation of'Vogts' is started.

Download or read book America s Gun Wars written by Donald J. Campbell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the controversies surrounding gun control, which are less about whether it "works" and more about whether the nation should prioritize traditional values of rugged independence or newer values of communitarian interdependence. America's Gun Wars contends that an understanding of America's gun controversy cannot be found in statistics documenting the rise (or fall) of violent crime, or in examining trade-offs between societal needs and personal safety, or in following the political maneuvering of advocacy groups such as the National Rifle Association or Everytown for Gun Safety. At heart, the gun controversy is a values conflict involving how people see themselves and how they make sense of the world they live in. Understanding this controversy requires a deep analysis of the profoundly different cultures inhabited by pro- and anti-gun activists, lawmakers, and voters. Written by a social scientist who has spent his life exploring how values and self-perceptions impact behavior, this book explores the origins and evolution of cultures in American society; the beliefs, experiences, and principles that guide the behavior of members in both camps; and the triumphs and failures that the two sides have experienced from colonial times to the present day.

Download or read book By Gun and Spur written by Wayne D. Overholser and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "ALL RIGHT, BEN. YOU GOT TIRED OF RISKING YOUR LIFE TO PROTECT OTHER PEOPLE. YOU HAD A VACATION COMING; NOW YOU'VE HAD IT. IT'S OVER.” Ben Sarboe didn't know if he was ready to take up a gun again; he hadn't meant it to be a vacation, he'd thought he'd retired. And now they'd found him, in this Godforsaken valley. And they were going to bring people, and money, and guns. So Ben had to decide to pick up his gun again, or else drift some more, and he was tired of drifting, and he liked this land. But he was just so damn tired of being shot at! He didn't know if he had the speed or the nerves to start it up again…. Three-time Winner of the Spur Award Wayne D. Overholser Author of "Law Man" and "The Violent Land." With millions of his books sold, he is acclaimed coast-to-coast and around the world as one of the greatest Western writers.

Download or read book Way with a Gun written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COSTLY WAGER Some men seek the Gunsmith for help—and others to gain notoriety. This time three gunfighters have grown mighty bored with all the killing, money, and women. They want the jackpot: Clint Adams. Winner takes all... If three's a crowd, what do you call a whole family of outlaws gunning for you? In Cedar City, Utah, the sheriff has made enemies with a local and his criminal kin. Clint's ready to back up the sheriff's tin star with some lead of his own. That is, if he has any left over...

Download or read book The Scarlet Gun written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron written by Anonymous and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron" by Anonymous. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.