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One Nation Under Guns
May 31, 2024
Acclaimed author delves into America’s complex relationship with firearms to better understand how our history has brought us to where we are today.
More than a hundred lives are lost to firearms every day in America. The cost is more than the numbers—it is the fear, the anxiety, the dread of public spaces that an armed society has created under the tortured rubric of freedom. But the norms of today are not the norms of American history or the values of its founders. They are the product of a gun culture that has imposed its vision on a sleeping nation.
Historian Dominic Erdozain argues that we have wrongly ceded the big-picture argument on guns: As we parse legislation on background checks and automatic-weapons bans, we fail to ask what place guns should have in a functioning democracy.
Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort (WAVE) Fund invites you to join Dominic Erdozain, author of “One Nation Under Guns,” in a special online program where he will share more of his perspective, also detailed in his book.
Here are the details you need to know:
Thursday, June 20
12:00 p.m. CT
Register now to receive a Zoom link on the day of the event.
Don't miss this opportunity to engage with one of the foremost authorities on America's relationship with firearms. If you’d like to read the book leading up to the discussion, you can grab a copy at your local library or order it here!
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