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BOOK
Title Bloodbath nation / Paul Auster ; photographs by Spencer Ostrander
Imprint New York : Grove Press, [2023]
©2021

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Edition First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition
Descript 136 sidor illustrationer 23 cm
Note "Each year, approximately forty thousand Americans are killed by gunshot wounds, which is roughly equivalent to the annual rate of traffic deaths on American roads and highways. Of those forty thousand gun fatalities, more than half of them are suicides, which in turn account for half of all suicides per year. Add in the murders caused by guns, the accidental deaths caused by guns, the law enforcement killings caused by guns, and the average comes out to more than one hundred Americans killed by bullets every day. On that same average day, another two hundred-plus are wounded by guns, which translates into eighty thousand a year. Eighty thousand wounded and forty thousand dead, or one hundred and twenty thousand ambulance calls and emergency room cases for every twelve-month tick of the clock, but the toll of gun violence goes far beyond the pierced and bloodied bodies of the victims themselves, spilling out into the devastations visited upon their immediate families, their extended families, their friends, their fellow workers, the people of their neighborhoods, their schools, their churches, their softball teams, and communities at large-the vast brigade of lives touched by the presence of a single person who lives or has lived among them-meaning that the number of Americans directly or indirectly marked by gun violence every year must be tallied in the millions"
Subject Skjutvapen
Eldhandvapen
Vapeninnehavare
Vapeninnehav
Vapenlagstiftning
Skyttar (skjutvapen)
Brottsoffer
Våld
Dödligt våld
Firearms ownership -- United States
Firearms accidents -- United States
Mortality -- United States
Victims of violent crimes -- United States
Mass shootings -- United States
Classmark 363.330973
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Alt Auth Ostrander, Spencer
ISBN/ISSN 9780802160454
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