مسدس أساسي | العيش والموت بالسلاح في أمريكا

From an award-winning scholar of the political right comes an immersive and painful journey through the world of gun schools and the curricula of violence they teach. To understand why so many die from weapons, we must first understand how people live under them. This realization is what prompted sociologist Harel Shapira to enroll in Tactical Training, a popular firearms school in rural Texas. Here, students are indoctrinated in the ideology of self-defense, where any trip to the grocery store can turn into a shootout, and any passer-by might be an intruder into a home that destroys an entire family. Shooting and killing in the name of self-defense is not a matter of “if” but “when.” Forty-two semesters, ten thousand rounds of ammunition, and a concealed carry license later, Shapira came out with The Basic Handgun, a rich, deep dive into a uniquely American obsession. The Culture of Peace in America “Gun Basics” traces Shapira’s arduous journey through the intense training curriculum of tactical training, to a society in which gun ownership is a source of livelihood, tradition, and identity. In doing so, he reveals how today's gun culture, and the fears and illusions it generates, has negatively affected the fabric of American society, giving white men the ability to endanger black people. In its engaging and game-changing style, Gun Basics presents the vision that if there is any hope of curbing gun violence, it must start not with the guns themselves, but with the people who carry them.