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Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
Written by Erik Larson
Narrated by Richard Poe
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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. It 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." 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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Rating: 3.6034482931034484 out of 5 stars
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58 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good expose of the firearms industry & the American obsession with guns. Published 26 years ago; still relevant today. Dyed, but spot on!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Made the topic engaging. Relevant as ever 30 years later.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A good read if a bit dry around the corners. Especially enjoyed the true stories of what happens when the wrong people get guns. Didn't really need all of the statistics but also enjoyed the story of the NRA and how it became the way it is now.