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Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun Paperback – January 15, 1995

by Erik Larson (Author)

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This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day's end, he had killed one teacher and severely wounded another.

In Lethal Passage Erik Larson shows us how a disturbed teenager was able to buy a weapon advertised as "the gun that made the eighties roar." The result is a book that can -- and should -- save lives, and that has already become an essential text in the gun-control debate.

With a new afterword.

"Touches on all aspects of the gun issue in this country. Gives great voice to that feeling...that something real must be done." --San Diego Union-Tribune

"One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years." --Washington Post Book World

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Wall Street Journal reporter Larson has written a new afterword to this timely study of American gun culture.
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"Larson takes us past the absurd myths, past the numbing statistics, and into the face of reality.... Journalism at its highest."

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"An artful slice of the story of what may be the greatest shame we as a nation have tried... to hide from ourselves.... Fascinating." -- Chicago Sun-Times

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Paperback: 280 pages
Publisher: Vintage; 33124th edition (January 15, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679759271
ISBN-13: 978-0679759270
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 81 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #335,223 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #635 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Specific Topics > Law Enforcement
- #650 in Books > Law > Criminal Law > Law Enforcement
- #735 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Violence in Society

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BERT

Story of authors research to control guns

August 29, 2017

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This is a good book but not story of a gun. That story could be told in 10 pages. This is primarily statics on gun violence. It also describes the author's ideas for gun control laws. Good ideas but need more thought.

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Would like to see sequel by same author

June 5, 2018

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Dated information on the current 2nd amendment issue. Would like to see sequel by same author.

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Max

And the issue is still with us

March 8, 2017

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I have had this book for a couple of years but found the subject hard to read about. I had to go to the beach and listen to the waves to read it in one day. It is over 20 years old but still as relevant as ever. Guns are not an easy issue to address. I don't own one but I also don't want to take guns away from people that enjoy them. To say there is no way to have effect controls is to admit defeat all to easily.

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I enjoyed the research

February 3, 2017

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While I don't agree with some of his personal opinions on gun issues, I enjoyed the research.

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NOT THE EQUAL OF DARK WAKE, ISAAC'S STORM, THUNDERSTRUCK, AND THE LIKE

April 27, 2016

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Having read and thoroughly enjoyed Larson's wonderfully crafted history based narratives, I was very much disappointed in Lethal Passage, which departs completely from the previous books I have read, and is a polemic about gun control. There is little narrative and plot development in this offering, and the whole is essentially an editorial around the gun control issue. There is nothing fundamentally wrong about this, as Larson is certainly entitled to his thoughts and opinions on the subject. It was a well served curve ball to this reader, on which I struck out. For the record, I am not a member of the NRA, and do not own any type of modern firearm. So I do not have a "dog in this fight," just frustration that this book did not offer the exhilarating read of Larson's other products. My fault, guess I should have read the reviews rather than proceed on blind faith. "Caveat Emptor," still true.

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J. Colvett

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June 29, 2015

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I only tried it because Erik Larson wrote it. It's not his normal style.

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Judith Sirois

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April 12, 2018

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Husband enjoyed the book.

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June 9, 2015

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Not for everyone but I liked it

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