One nation under guns : how gun culture distorts our history and threatens our democracy
by Erdozain, Dominic (Author)
Summary
"This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation's fathers did not intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear arms--and that this intentional distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy. Hundreds of lives are lost to firearms every day in America.... Full description
- Prologue: You're next
- The myth of law-abiding citizen
- Liberty as life: the second amendment you never knew
- The pistol and the lash
- Patriots
- The birth of a gun lobby
- Guns against America
- A state of war
- Death by dictionary
- The future of freedom.