02133cam a2200349 i 4500 1168677238 TxAuBib 20240313120000.0 240124s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781324050254 hardback 132405025X hardback TxAuBib rda Metzl, Jonathan, 1964- What we've become : living and dying in a country of arms / Jonathan M. Metzl. What we have become. First edition. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024] x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-353) and index. "When a naked, mentally ill white man with an AR-15 killed four young adults of color at a Waffle House, Nashville-based physician and gun policy scholar Dr. Jonathan M. Metzl once again advocated for commonsense gun reform. But as he peeled back evidence surrounding the racially charged mass shooting, a shocking question emerged: Did the public health approach he had championed for years have it all wrong? Long at the forefront of a movement advocating for gun reform as a matter of public health, Metzl has been on constant media call in the aftermath of fatal shootings. But the 2018 Nashville killings led him on a path toward recognizing the limitations of biomedical frameworks for fully diagnosing or treating the impassioned complexities of American gun politics. As he came to understand it, public health is a harder sell in a nation that fundamentally disagrees about what it means to be safe, healthy, or free"-- Provided by publisher. 20240313. Mass shootings United States. Firearms ownership United States. Gun control United States. Firearms Law and legislation United States.