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Annotation:Explores different views on guns by talking to teens around the country about how guns affect their lives, whether it's drive-by shootings, or 4-H gun clubs.
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Annotation:a balanced look at what made the Glock the most popular handgun in America.
Annotation:A comprehensive review of gun use and gun control issues in America.
Annotation:The author, a psychologist, examines three types of young killers - psychopathic, psychotic, or traumatized, and goes over warning signs for parents and schools to watch for.
Annotation:Explores the gun lobby and its culture, the firearms industry and the struggle between gun control activists and firearms lobbyists.
Annotation:The authors make a provocative argument that gun control won't reduce violence.
Annotation:In Lethal Passage readers learn how a disturbed teenager was able to buy a weapon advertised as "the gun that made the eighties roar." Challenges the belief that gun ownship is part of the American character.
Annotation:Argues that gun control legislation won't help stop those with criminal intentions.
Annotation:The NRA unmasked, as told by a former gun lobbyist who worked for them.
Annotation:What does happen when someone is shot? How effective are the use of hand guns? Why are so many shots fired at a shootout? Why don’t officers shoot a gun out of an assailant’s hands, or shoot him in the leg instead of killing him? What is it really like for an officer to pull his gun and fire?
Annotation:More than 30,000 people die a year in the US from gunfire. Why is the gun control movement in America so stymied?
Annotation:A champion of the 2nd amendment, the author defends her right to bear arms.
Annotation:Examines gun control policies around the world, and features essays on gun control in Nigeria, Russia, Canada and other countries.
Annotation:Using the 2008 legal case District of Columbia v. Heller , the author traces the history of gun rights in America, from the 2nd Amendment forward, exploring both sides of the issue.
Annotation:Is there a middle ground between the NRA's defense of the right to bear arms and the opposite view, of trying to get rid of the 300 million guns that Americans already own?
Annotation:After the Columbine school shootings, Michael Moore created this documentary film, exploring the roots of violence in the United States.
Annotation:Do guns cause violence? Will gun control cut down on crime? This book features dozens of essays arguing many sides of gun issues.
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Books to support the Common Core Standard ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8. 4-9. For example: "Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts)," and "distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text." And ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10. 4-6. "Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts."
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