"A lively and interesting overview of guns in American life; past,
present, and future...Guns in America: A Reader will serve most
promisingly as a long-awaited introduction to a complex and
controversial issue."
--"Left History"
Firearms have long been at the core of our national narratives.
From the Puritans' embrace of guns to beat back the "devilish
Indian" to our guilty delight in the extralegal exploits of Dirty
Harry, Americans have relied on the gun to right wrongs, both real
and imagined.
The extent to which guns have been woven into our nation's
mythology suggests that the current debate is only partly about
guns themselves and equally about conflicting cultural values and
competing national identities. Belying the gun debate are a host of
related issues: contesting conceptions of community, the proper
relationship between the individual and the state, and the locus of
responsibility for maintaining order.
Guns in America documents and analyzes the history of firearms
in America, exploring various aspects of gun manufacture,
ownership, and useaand more importantly, the cultural and political
implications which this history reveals.
Eschewing single-minded partisanship and emphasizing nuance and
compromise, Jan E. Dizard and Robert Merrill Muth have assembled a
diverse array of writings from all points on the ideological
spectrum. The documents span the whole of American history, from
Puritan sermons to contemporary NRA documents. The result is an
indispensable panorama of the never-ending controversies over gun
control, crime, hunting, and militias.
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