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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gunby: Erik Larson  List Price: $14.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.17 You Save: $4.78 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 364.15230975551 EAN: 9780679759270 ISBN: 0679759271 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 280 Publication Date: January 15, 1995 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: January 15, 1995 Studio: Vintage Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Flawed Study of a CrimeErik Larson wrote this 1994 book to study the commerce in guns. He picked the worst case example where a sixteen-year old boy shot a teacher at school. In December 1988 Nicholas Elliot brought a gun to school to scare the teenage boy who was tormenting him (p.55). This true crime book lacks photographs of the people and places, as if it was a work of fiction. The flaw is its blame of an inanimate object for the problem, and totally disregards the political and economic situation where these crimes ... Read More Rating:  - Ironic PassageWhen I read Erik Larson, I know I'm in for a treat, and this was no exception. This book not only tells the story of how a bullied boy takes his anger out using a gun at school, but the story of the inadequicies of gun legislation and the winding road the NRA has taken interpreting the 2nd Amendment. The one irony I found that Larson points out is that it's harder to get a driver's license than it is to get a gun in the United States. What I like most about the book is that Larson provides a solution ... Read More Rating: - Well-written, but biasedThis is a reasonably well written, but undeniably biased tale. The statistics are slanted and untrustworthy, and the rhetoric is tough to wade through for anyone on the pro-rights side of this issue. Rating:  - One sided view pointLarson does show that straw purchasers of handguns contribute to crime. He spends little or no time on the contributing factors for such gun purchases. He does not address guns obtained by theft, or illegal sales or the lending of firearms within extended families, gangs or circles of acquaintances. If your mind is already made up, you'll like this book. Rating:  - Should be required reading for anyone joining the NRA!This is a very well written and researched account of a tragic event of the nature we encounter too often in the daily news. At the same time, it illuminates the tragic and absurd situation in which the country has placed itself on the subject of gun control. 
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