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Tragedy in Aurora - The Culture of Mass Shootings in America (Paperback)
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Tragedy in Aurora - The Culture of Mass Shootings in America (Paperback)
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Tragedy in Aurora is about the 2012 murder of budding sports
journalist Jessica (Jessi) Redfield Ghawi in a public mass
shooting, and the widening circle of pain it inflicted on her
family, friends, police, medical first responders, and others. The
book is at the same time a deep examination of the causes and
potential cures of the quintessential 21st century American
sickness-public mass shootings. At the heart of that examination is
an unpacking of America's deep polarization and political gridlock.
It addresses head on the question of why? Why is American gun
violence so different from other countries? Why does nothing seem
to change? The "Parkland kids" inspired hope of change. But the
ultimate questions stubbornly remain-what should, what can, and
what will Americans do to reduce gun violence? Tragedy in Aurora
argues that the answer lies in a conscious cultural redefinition of
American civic order. Over recent decades, America has defined a
cultural "new normal" about guns and gun violence. Americans
express formalistic dismay after every public mass shooting. But
many accept gun violence as an inevitable, even necessary, and to
some laudable part of what it means to be "American." Although
Americans claim to be shocked with each new outrage, so far they
have failed to coalesce around an effective way to reduce gun death
and injury. The debate is bogged down in polarized and profoundly
ideological political and cultural argument. Meanwhile, America
continues to lead the globe in its pandemic levels of gun deaths
and injuries. Combined with the cynical "learned helplessness" of
its politicians, the result is gridlock and a growing roll of
victims of carnage. Is there a path out of this cultural and
political gridlock? Tragedy in Aurora argues that if America is to
reduce gun violence it must expand the debate and confront the
fundamental question of "who are we?" Tom Diaz gives a new
understanding of American culture and the potential for change
offered by the growing number and ongoing organization of victims
and survivors of gun violence. Without conscious cultural change,
the book argues, there is little prospect of effective laws or
public policy to reduce gun violence in general and public mass
shootings in particular.
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