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Cargando... Stand Your Ground: A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense (edición 2017)por Caroline Light (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. A compelling review of the history and progression of guns in America. Wherever you are on the spectrum of gun rights, this book can teach you a few things and provide some much needed perspective on the issue.Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Good book overall. Interesting subject overall and the author presents it in an interesting format.Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. This is a very thorough look at the history of firearms in the United States, as well as the laws that impact their ownership and use - and how those laws have been enforced. I admit that I was surprised that the book delved into the politics of race and gender as it relates to gun laws and enforcement and the public's perception of criminality. This is such a politicized issue in our society today that I don't suspect this book will convince anyone of anything, nor would I expect any supporter of "Stand Your Ground" laws to read past the first few pages, but I think it is a good book for people who already oppose such laws to be equipped with a better historical understanding of the issue. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. An important and divided issue in the political sphere is tackled with force by Caroline Light in "Stand Your Ground". Why I didn't rate this book higher is due to the emotional flirts that comes out in the dialogue. Overall though, a good read. It does add curiosity to this issue to which now I will have to look more into. It was definitely an eye opener. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A history of America's Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon Martin After a young, white gunman killed twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, conservative legislators lamented that the tragedy could have been avoided if the schoolteachers had been armed and the classrooms equipped with guns. Similar claims were repeated in the aftermath of other recent shootings-after nine were killed in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and in the aftermath of the massacre in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Despite inevitable questions about gun control, there is a sharp increase in firearm sales in the wake of every mass shooting. Yet, this kind of DIY-security activism predates the contemporary gun rights movement-and even the stand-your-ground self-defense laws adopted in thirty-three states, or the thirteen million civilians currently licensed to carry concealed firearms. As scholar Caroline Light proves, support for "good guys with guns" relies on the entrenched belief that certain "bad guys with guns" threaten us all. Stand Your Groundexplores the development of the American right to self-defense and reveals how the original "duty to retreat" from threat was transformed into a selective right to kill. In her rigorous genealogy, Light traces white America's attachment to racialized, lethal self-defense by unearthing its complex legal and social histories-from the original "castle laws" of the 1600s, which gave white men the right to protect their homes, to the brutal lynching of "criminal" Black bodies during the Jim Crow era and the radicalization of the NRA as it transitioned from a sporting organization to one of our country's most powerful lobbying forces. In this convincing treatise on the United States' unprecedented ascension as the world's foremost stand-your-ground nation, Light exposes a history hidden in plain sight, showing how violent self-defense has been legalized for the most privileged and used as a weapon against the most vulnerable. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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