A Safeway in Arizona: What the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting Tells Us About the Grand Canyon State and Life in America - Tom Zoellner
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Gun Control
Guns
Murder
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A riveting account of the state of Arizona, seen through the lens of the Tucson shootings.
On January 8, 2011, twenty-two-year-old Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a Tucson meet and greet held by US representative Gabrielle Giffords. The incident left six people dead and thirteen injured, including Giffords, whom he shot in the head.
Award-winning author and fifth-generation Arizonan Tom Zoellner, a longtime friend of Giffords and a field organizer on her congressional campaign, uses the tragedy as a jumping-off point to expose the fault lines in Arizona’s political and socioeconomic landscape that allowed this to happen: the harmful political rhetoric, the inept state government, the lingering effects of the housing market s boom and bust, the proliferation and accessibility of guns, the lack of established communities, and the hysteria surrounding issues of race and immigration.
Zoellner offers a revealing portrait of the southwestern state at a critical moment in history and as a symbol of the nation s discontents and uncertainties. Ultimately, it is his rallying cry for a saner, more civil way of life.
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| Creation Date: | Sun, 17 May 2015 22:30:05 -0400 |
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| 01. The Safeway.mp3 22.43 MBs | |
| 02. Reinvention.mp3 18.08 MBs | |
| 03. The Countryside.mp3 13.89 MBs | |
| 04. Selling The Village.mp3 32.96 MBs | |
| 05. Citizenship.mp3 17.06 MBs | |
| 06. The Influencing Machine.mp3 26.42 MBs | |
| 07. It All Plays In.mp3 30.97 MBs | |
| 08. ”I Am Arizona”.mp3 20.4 MBs | |
| 09. Immigrants, Guns, And Fear.mp3 39.06 MBs | |
| 10. The Men From Nowhere.mp3 26.87 MBs | |
| 11. A Better Place.mp3 31.71 MBs | |
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This post has 4 comments
May 18th, 2015
“uses the tragedy as a jumping-off point to expose the fault lines in Arizona’s political and socioeconomic landscape that allowed this to happen: the harmful political rhetoric, the inept state government, the lingering effects of the housing market s boom and bust, the proliferation and accessibility of guns, the lack of established communities, and the hysteria surrounding issues of race and immigration.”
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Sounds way overblown. How about a book about one lunatic with a gun. I guess not. That would take about 2 paragraphs and that wouldn’t make for an interesting essay never mind a book.
May 18th, 2015
Yeah. Just another politically mind tool with an agenda trying to make a buck.
May 19th, 2015
There’s a strange promiscuity that reigns in the US to not question people’s “right” to buy, accumulate, and carry military-grade weapons. Check out:
http://www.humanosphere.org/science/2014/03/visualizing-gun-deaths-comparing-the-u-s-to-rest-of-the-world/
The US is way-out-of-whack with the rest of the world on this. It’s inevitable that some of these guns are going to fall into the hands of mentally disturbed individuals. America refused to learn the lessons of Newtown, CT whereas Britain learned from Dunblane and Cumbria, Norway from the Utoya island spree, Canada from the Ecole Polytechnique rampage, etc. The proposed 2013 restrictions were very minimal background checks but couldn’t pass…even through something like 70% of Americans supported them. That’s government run by the fringe….a fringe that believes the minimal protections for the welfare and safety of the majority means a totalitarian crackdown on constitutional rights.
December 9th, 2015
Guest, I couldn’t have stated it any better. Well done.
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