Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun | 
|  | | | Title: | Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun | | Author: | Erik Larson | | Publisher: | Vintage | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 15 January, 1995 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0679759271 / 9780679759270 | | List Price: | $14.00 | | You Save: | $2.80 | | Amazon Price: | $11.20 | |
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This devastating book begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. 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." In so doing, he not only illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. 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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• Accurate And Honest 05 July, 1998
Being aware of the real life events of the book, I can say that Lethal Passage is accurate and honest. Mr. Larson exposes the cracks in the gun control system and shows the ease with which a boy could purchase an automatic weapon and murder in cold blood. The murder story can make one cry in sorrow and in anger. His purpose in writing was to make a point in order to keep similar tragedies from occurring again. Unfortunately, up to this point, no one has listened.
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