Making a Killing
The Business of Guns in America
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Word Count
64,500 words, Guess
Page Count
258 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemakingkilling00tomd
- ISBN-101565845676
- ISBN-139781565845671
- LibraryThing2030823
- OCLC Control Number43500522
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781565845671
- Open LibraryOL8666661M
Classifications
- DDC338.4/762344/0973
- LCCHD9744.F553 U63 1999
Description
The gun industry is the last unregulated manufacturer of a consumer product in America, with a level of secrecy that makes the tobacco industry look like a model of transparency. Making a Killing blows away the smoke and offers a provocative new take on gun violence in our society. Former NRA member and "gun nut" Tom Diaz argues that despite endless rhetoric about the right to bear arms, the real story behind the steady rise in gun violence in America is the systematic increase in lethality by manufacturers. Diaz shows how over the last two decades the gun industry has sought to reverse declining profits by dramatically increasing killing power, rolling out new and more dangerous products as breezily as car companies introduced tailfins in the fifties - and thereby contributing to a public health and safety disaster of epidemic proportions.
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