Audio Books →Bloodbath Nation [Audiobook]

Now, at this time of intense national discord, no issue divides Americans more deeply than the debate about guns. There are currently more guns than people in the United States, and every day more than 100 Americans are killed by guns and another 200 are wounded. These numbers are so large, so catastrophic, so disproportionate to what goes on elsewhere, that one must ask why. Why is America so different-and why are we the most violent country in the Western world?
In this short, searing book, Auster traces centuries of America's use and abuse of guns, through the colonial prehistory of the Republic, armed conflict against the native population, the forced enslavement of millions, and the mass shootings that dominate the current news cycle. He examines the embattled gun-control and anti-gun-control camps, frames gun violence as a public health issue, and investigates the details of one horrific incident including the perpetrator's unchecked purchase of the gun he used and the suffering of a bystander-turned-hero.
Bloodbath Nation is an unflinching work about guns in America that asks: What kind of society do we want to live in?