Basic Pistol
Living and Dying by the Gun in America
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“At once page-turning and deeply disquieting, Harel Shapira’s Basic Pistol is a must read."—Heather Ann Thompson, author of Fear and Fury and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Blood in the Water
To understand why so many people die by the gun, we must first understand how so many people live by the gun.
This is the realization that led sociologist Harel Shapira to embed himself in Tactical Training, a popular firearms school in rural Texas. Here, students learn that any grocery store trip could become a shootout, and any day could be the day that a home intruder murders your family. They learn that waiting for the police to save the day is a death sentence. To be safe is to always carry a gun—and to always be ready and willing to use it.
Forty-two classes, ten thousand rounds of ammunition, and one concealed carry license later, Shapira has emerged with Basic Pistol, a dark and richly textured plunge into a uniquely American way of living. Basic Pistol follows Shapira’s fraught journey through the world of firearms schools and into a community for whom gun ownership is livelihood, is tradition, is identity. It exposes the racist fears and heroic fantasies gun owners are taught to carry alongside their guns. It shows how a relentless sense of vulnerability has empowered them to shoot with impunity. And it argues this education in violence, as much as any legislation, has torn through the social fabric, killing not only people but the very kinds of relationships that make democracy viable.
Page-turning and paradigm-shifting, Basic Pistol shows that if there’s any hope of reining in gun violence, it must start with the people who carry the guns.
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"At once page-turning and deeply disquieting, Harel Shapira’s Basic Pistol is a must read for anyone who wants to understand not just why gun violence is so devastatingly prevalent in the United States, but also, and as importantly, how gun ownership has become so normalized, so passionately defended, and so much a part of how countless people now measure their sense of safety as well as connect to their community."—Heather Ann Thompson, author of Fear and Fury and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Blood in the Water
"Basic Pistol is masterfully crafted. It penetrates the heart of American gun culture and, somehow, renders it both deeply human and utterly monstrous. It’s a fascinating, disturbing, and necessary book about the violence of everyday life in the United States."—Eric Klinenberg, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences, New York University
"Basic Pistol is masterfully crafted. It penetrates the heart of American gun culture and, somehow, renders it both deeply human and utterly monstrous. It’s a fascinating, disturbing, and necessary book about the violence of everyday life in the United States."—Eric Klinenberg, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences, New York University
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