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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.
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The Story of a Gun. When I lived in Baltimore, I became struck by the frequency of drive-by shootings involving young teens who possessed sophisticated weapons. At the time, no one bothered to find out where the guns came from. I decided to try. The result was this book, which tells the story of how a particular model of handgun, designed ...
Lethal Passage. Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun is a 1995 non-fiction book by American author Erik Larson. Through the lens of a 1988 school shooting in Virginia Beach, the author explores America's gun culture and the ease in acquiring such weapons as the one used by the school shooter, the MAC-11. [1]
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Jan 15, 1995 · 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.
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book Lethal Passage by Erik Larson. December 5, 1992, a date forever etched in the memory of the people of Long Island. On this seemingly ordinary winter day, a tragic event unfolded that would shake the nation to its core and ignite a heated debate on gun control. It was on this day that seventeen-year-old Nicholas
Mar 9, 1994 · A frightening tour through America's gun culture by way of a single weapon — a semiautomatic hailed by its manufacturer as the gun that made the '80s roar, and a single criminal — a troubled Virginia teenager who used the gun in a terrifying rampage. In December 1988, hoping to retaliate against a taunting class bully, 16-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia Beach high school ...
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Jul 27, 2011 · Lethal Passage. : Erik Larson. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jul 27, 2011 - Social Science - 304 pages. 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. "Touches on all aspects of the gun issue ...