Title: Some goods sections, others full of rant...
Product review: Having had to read this book for my college sociology class, I admit this would not have been the first book I would have picked up on my own. It has several good points, such as how the media tends to perpetuate fears. However, several sections left me with the feeling that the purpose of this book was to unleash some pent up frustration by the author, consequently making this book full of rant. As the line, Its the Guns, stupid...well, by characterizing the issues of suicide or teen school shooters, as a problem with our gun policy, trivilizes the issues- there is something clearly wrong with an individual who would go shooting around some of his classmates-and to blame it on the guns, negates this fact. And remember Columbine, they didn't just use guns. Maybe school shootings aren't likely, but tell that to the parents who have lost their children's due to these random acts of violence.
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