Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
by Erik Larson
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Author: Erik LarsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-01-15
ISBN: 0679759271
Number of pages: 280
Publisher: Vintage
Summary of Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
This devastating book begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day's end, he had killed one teacher and severely wounded another.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." In so doing, he not only illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. 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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