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Most Americans of the mid-20th century abhorred the concept of “preparatory armed carriage” and shuddered at the sight of a gun in public. Regulations against “going armed” were as old as ...
The thesis of Arming America is that gun culture in the United States did not have roots in the colonial and early national period but arose during the 1850s and 1860s. The book argues that guns were uncommon during peacetime in the United States during the colonial, early national, and antebellum periods, that guns were seldom used then and that the average American's proficiency in use of ...
In another mixed review, Joseph Sheley described the book as "at once refreshing and bothersome". [3] H. Laurence Ross wrote in the American Journal of Sociology that "Kleck does the gun control policy debate a great service in demonstrating the complexity of issues that too often are discussed in simplistic ways in the political arena." [4]
"Americans made up 4 percent of the world's population but owned about 46 percent of the entire global stock of 857 million civilian firearms." [13] [attribution needed] U.S. civilians own 393 million guns. American civilians own more guns "than those held by civilians in the other top 25 countries combined." [14] [attribution needed]
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Loaded begins with Dunbar-Ortiz writing about her own experience with guns as a member of a radical left-wing "women’s action-study group" in 1970. She uses her own history of falling in, and then out of, love with guns to begin an exploration of the larger U.S. love-fest with guns, and where this comes from.
The water ice was red, the Swedish Fish flavor from that summer, and 30 seconds after he swallowed it, the red water ice came oozing out of the hole in his intestine. His friends bolted. Over the course of his long recovery, from the fall of 2005 into the spring and summer of 2006, Colon got a feel for the rhythms of the Trauma Service.