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Basic Pistol

Living and Dying by the Gun in America

AvHarel Shapira

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

208 kr

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This eye-opening deep dive into American gun culture reveals how people are training their minds and bodies to use guns to devastating effect.All across the country, everyday Americans are taking classes in how to use a gun. Harel Shapira, a sociologist at the University of Texas, has spent ten years immersed in the world of gun-training. Who are the instructors? What are people learning from them? And how does it explain the gun violence that’s now playing out on a daily basis?Shapira reveals that far from simply teaching the mechanics of gun safety these schools are teaching a way of living in the world that is rooted in racist fears, aggressive masculinity and an entitlement to violence. In storytelling that will take your breath away, we discover that the risk of widespread gun ownership is not simply the possibility of more gun violence and mass shootings. The risk is to the very foundations of democracy itself.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-17
Mått:153 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Pan Macmillan
ISBN:9781529099201

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Harel Shapira is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his BA from the University of Chicago and his PhD from Columbia University. Shapira uses long-term ethnographic research to understand right-wing politics and gun culture in contemporary America. He is the author of Waiting for José: The Minutemen’s Pursuit of America. His writing has been featured in publications including The New York Times and The New Republic. He was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow in 2015 and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in 2021. Basic Pistol is his second book.

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At once page-turning and deeply disquieting . . . a must read for anyone who wants to understand not just why gun violence is so devastatingly prevalent in the US, but also, and as importantly, how gun ownership has become so normalized, so passionately defended, and so much a part of how countless people now measure their sense of safety as well as connect to their community.