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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 story was reprinted in 1932 by publisher William Farquhar Payson in a limited edition with illustrations. The title of the story comes from a mysterious loud exploding sound coming from Seneca Lake, called "The Lake Gun" by European American settlers to the area, [3] and known today as the Seneca Guns. These sounds remain unexplained to ...
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 ...
"Guns" is a non-fiction essay written by American writer Stephen King on the issue of gun violence, published in 2013. He wrote it after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting , elaborating on why he let the novel Rage (1977) and The Bachman Books (1985), the omnibus in which Rage also appeared, go out of print.
The post has been liked more than 700,000 times. Followers commended the poet for putting their feelings of grief, fear and anger into words. "Grateful for your words when words feel impossible ...
Opinion: The authors participated in Citizen Solutions, a national civic experiment by Starts With Us that empowers Americans to work on solutions. Tennesseans have different views on guns, but ...
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 story concerns an insane brigadier general of the United States Air Force who orders a pre-emptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. It follows the President of the United States (Sellers), his scientific advisor Dr. Strangelove (Sellers), the Joint Chiefs of Staff , and a Royal Air Force exchange officer (Sellers) as they attempt to stop ...