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This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm.
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Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun is a 1995 non-fiction book by American author Erik Larson. Through the lens of a 1988 school shooting in Virginia Beach, the author explores America's gun culture and the ease in acquiring such weapons as the one used by the school shooter, the MAC-11. [1]
- Erik Larson
- 1995
Lethal Passage - Erik Larson. The Story of a Gun. When I lived in Baltimore, I became struck by the frequency of drive-by shootings involving young teens who possessed sophisticated weapons. At the time, no one bothered to find out where the guns came from. I decided to try.
Jan 15, 1995 · In Lethal Passage Erik Larson shows us how a disturbed teenager was able to buy a weapon advertised as "the gun that made the eighties roar." The result is a book that can -- and should -- save lives, and that has already become an essential text in the gun-control debate. Read more.
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- 1995
- Erik Larson
- Erik Larson
In Lethal Passage Erik Larson shows us how a disturbed teenager was able to buy a weapon advertised as "the gun that made the eighties roar." The result is a book that can -- and should -- save lives, and that has already become an essential text in the gun-control debate.
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- Erik Larson
Oct 26, 2021 · Lethal passage : the story of a gun. by. Larson, Erik, 1954-. Publication date. 1995. Topics. Elliot, Nicholas Walden Herman, Gun control -- United States, Firearms -- Social aspects -- United States, Murder -- Virginia -- Virginia Beach -- Case studies, Murderers -- Virginia -- Virginia Beach -- Biography. Publisher.
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