5. Sarah McCammon, “The Warfare May Be Remote but the Trauma Is Real,” All Things Considered (NPR), April 24, 2017, https://www.npr.org/2017/04/24/525413427/for-drone-pilots-warfare-may-be-remote-but-the-trauma-is-real. See also Medea Benjamin, Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control (New York: OR Books, 2012).
6. Katherine Weber, “Rick Warren: Why God Encourages Christians to ‘Fear Not’ 365 Times in the Bible,” Christian Post, April 30, 2016, https://www.christianpost.com/news/rick-warren-why-god-encourages-christians-to-fear-not-365-times-in-the-bible-163029.
7. Martin Luther King Jr., “Beyond Vietnam” (sermon, New York, April 4, 1967), https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/beyond-vietnam.
8. Massad Ayoob, “Trend Crimes and the Gun Dealer,” Shooting Industry, March 1993, 18, cited in James Atwood, America and Its Guns: A Theological Exposé (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2012), 90.
9. Quoted by Tom Diaz, Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America (New York: New Press, 1999), 164, cited in Atwood, America and Its Guns, 90.
10. Martin Luther King Jr., “The American Dream” (sermon, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA, July 4, 1965), https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/american-dream-sermon-delivered-ebenezer-baptist-church.
Chapter 17: Commonsense Change
1. Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, s.v. “accident (n.),” accessed July 27, 2018, http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/collegiate/accident.
2. Anthony Fabio et al., “Gaps Continue in Firearm Surveillance: Evidence from a Large U.S. City Bureau of Police,” Social Medicine 10, no. 1 (July 2016): 13–21; Christopher Ingraham, “New Evidence Confirms What Gun Rights Advocates Have Said for a Long Time about Crime,” Washington Post, July 27, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/27/new-evidence-confirms-what-gun-rights-advocates-have-been-saying-for-a-long-time-about-crime.
3. Amber Case, “We Are All Cyborgs Now,” TEDWomen 2010, filmed December 2010, 7:46, https://www.ted.com/talks/amber_case_we_are_all_cyborgs_now.
4. Evan Selinger, “The Philosophy of the Technology of the Gun,” Atlantic, July 23, 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/the-philosophy-of-the-technology-of-the-gun/260220.
5. Quoted in Rosalie Riegle Troester, ed., Voices from the Catholic Worker (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993), 114.
6. James Atwood, America and Its Guns: A Theological Exposé (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2012), 132.
Chapter 18: Reimagining the World
1. Terri writes about that journey in her book Forgiven: The Amish School Shooting, a Mother’s Love, and a Story of Remarkable Grace (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 2015).
Notes to Sidebars
Mel Bernstein (chapter 2)
The information on Mel Bernstein in this section is drawn from an ABC interview: Michael Koenigs, “What the ‘Most Armed Man in America’ Has to Say about Mass Shootings,” ABC News, November 9, 2017, http://abcnews.go.com/US/armed-man-america-mass-shootings/story?id=50704521.
Greg St. Martin, “Study: 70M More Firearms Added to US Gun Stock over Past 20 Years,” News at Northeastern, September 26, 2016, https://news.northeastern.edu/2016/09/26/study-70m-more-firearms-added-to-us-gun-stock-over-past-20-years.
Oversupply and Overdemand (chapter 2)
US Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, “Firearms Commerce in the United States,” 2017, https://www.atf.gov/resource-center/docs/undefined/firearms-commerce-united-states-annual-statistical-update-2017/download.
Gun Facts (chapter 2)
German Lopez, “America’s Gun Problem, Explained,” Vox, May 18, 2018, https://www.vox.com/2015/10/3/9444417/gun-violence-united-states-america.
Aaron Smith, “Black Friday Was Huge for Gun Sales,” CNN, November 27, 2017, http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/27/news/companies/black-friday-gun-sales.
Michael Luo, Mike McIntire, and Griff Palmer, “Seeking Gun or Selling One, Web Is a Land of Few Rules,” New York Times, April 17, 2013, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/us/seeking-gun-or-selling-one-web-is-a-land-of-few-rules.html.
Leanna Garfield, “There Are 50,000 More Gun Shops Than McDonald’s in the US,” Business Insider, October 6, 2017, http://www.businessinsider.com/gun-dealers-stores-mcdonalds-las-vegas-shooting-2017-10.
Wikipedia, s.v. “Estimated Number of Civilian Guns Per Capita by Country,” last modified July 23, 2018, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Fatal Injury Reports, National, Regional and State, 1981–2016,” WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System), updated February 19, 2017, https://webappa.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate.html.
Alan I. Leshner et al., eds., Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence (Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2013), http://nap.edu/18319.
National Institute of Justice, “Gun Violence,” updated March 13, 2018, https://www.nij.gov/topics/crime/gun-violence/pages/welcome.aspx.
“Handguns for 18-Year-Olds?,” editorial, New York Times, November 25, 2010, https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/opinion/26fri1.html.
Erin Grinshteyn and David Hemenway, “Homicide, Suicide, and Unintentional Firearm Fatality: Comparing the United States with Other High-Income Countries, 2003,” Journal of Trauma 70, no. 1 (January 2011): 238–43, https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0b013e3181dbaddf.
Everytown for Gun Safety, “Gun Violence in America,” accessed September 10, 2018, https://everytownresearch.org/gun-violence-america.
Libby Nelson and Javier Zarracina, “A Shocking Statistic about Gun Deaths in the US,” Vox, December 4, 2015, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/12/4/9851102/gun-deaths-us-children.
Harry Enten, “There’s a Gun for Every American. But Less Than a Third Own Guns,” CNN, February 15, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/politics/guns-dont-know-how-many-america/index.html.
Rick Jervis, “3% of Americans Own Half the Country’s 265 Million Guns,” USA Today, updated September 22, 2016, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/09/22/study-guns-owners-violence/90858752.
Dara Lind, “Who Owns Guns in America? White Men, Mostly,” Vox, December 4, 2015, https://www.vox.com/2015/12/4/9849524/gun-race-statistics.
Elspeth Reeve, “Some Uncomfortable Numbers about Guns in America,” Atlantic, December 17, 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/guns-in-america-statistics/320409.
“Nearly Half of Guns in U.S. Owned by 3 Percent of Population, Study Finds,” All Things Considered (NPR), September 20, 2016, https://www.npr.org/2016/09/20/494765559/nearly-half-of-guns-in-u-s-owned-by-3-percent-of-population-study-finds. See also Tibi Puiu, “Just 3% of Americans Own 50% of the Country’s Guns,” ZME Science, updated October 5, 2017, https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/just-3-americans-50-countrys-guns; Youyou Zhou, “Three Percent of the Population Own Half of the Civilian Guns in the US,” Quartz, October 6, 2017, https://qz.com/1095899/gun-ownership-in-america-in-three-charts.
As of 2014, Japan has an even lower gun-death rate. There were only six gun deaths in 2014 (that’s total, not per capita). Harry Low, “How Japan Has Almost Eradicated Gun Crime,” BBC World Service, January 6, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38365729. Japan is one of four countries that have nearly eliminated gun violence. Chris Weller, “These Four Countries Have Nearly Eliminated Gun Deaths—Here’s What the US Can Learn,” Independent, February 18, 2018, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/gun-deaths-eliminated-america-learn-japan-australia-uk-norway-florida-shooting-latest-news-a8216301.html.
Gun Timeline (chapter 3)
This sidebar is adapted from “Gun Timeline,” PBS, accessed August 21, 2018, http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/technique/gun-timeline.
Developing a Domestic Gun Market after the Civil War (chapter 3)
Pamela Haag, The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture (New York: Bas
ic Books, 2016), 54; “The Remington Works, Ilion, NY,” Scientific American, April 13, 1872, 240, cited in Haag, Gunning of America, 110; WRAC, Winchester letter book, from Winchester to Charles Bradford, Indiana, October 18, 1862, cited in Haag, Gunning of America, 59; Haag, Gunning of America, 113.
The Teen Killer Who Radicalized the NRA (chapter 4)
Gil Troy, “The Teen Killer Who Radicalized the NRA,” Daily Beast, October 8, 2017, https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-teen-killer-who-radicalized-the-nra.
A Gun in the Home (chapter 7)
American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Injury and Poison Prevention, “Firearm-Related Injuries Affecting the Pediatric Population,” Pediatrics 105, no. 4 (April 2000), 888–95.
“It’s a Fact That God Loves You” (chapter 8)
Benjamin L. Corey, “Why I’ll Always Be a God Believer (about the Day I Was Going to Die),” The Official Blog of Benjamin L. Corey, January 17, 2014, http://www.patheos.com/blogs/formerlyfundie/why-ll-always-be-a-god-believer-about-the-day-i-was-going-to-die.
Beating Plows into Swords (chapter 11)
Kyle Mizokami, “Here Is Every Aircraft Carrier in the World,” Popular Mechanics, January 25, 2016, https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/g2412/a-global-roundup-of-aircraft-carriers.
Gathering around the Forge (chapter 12)
“Neighborhood Economics: Walter Brueggemann,” QC Family Tree, keynote address at Neighborhood Economics Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, November 12–13, 2014, http://qcfamilytree.org/neighborhood-economics-walter-brueggemann.
The Language of Violence (chapter 14)
From James Atwood, America and Its Guns: A Theological Exposé (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2012), 45.
Early Christians on Violence (chapter 14)
Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 11.3, 11.4, in Eberhard Arnold, ed., The Early Christians in Their Own Words (Farmington, PA: Plough, 2007), 81; Tertullian, Against Marcion 3.21, in The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325 (hereafter ANF), edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, 10 vols. (New York: Christian Literature, 1885–1887; repr., Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994), 3:339–40; Arnobius, Against the Pagans 1.6 (ANF 6:415); Athenagoras, A Plea for the Christians 35 (ANF 2:147); Tertullian, Apology 37 (ANF 3:45); Tertullian, On the Spectacles 2 (ANF 3:80); Minucius Felix, The Octavius of Minucius Felix 30 (ANF 4:192); Origen, Against Celsus 3.7 (ANF 4:467); Cyprian, On the Good of Patience 16 (ANF 5:488); Cyprian, To Donatus 6 (ANF 5:277).
A Fear-Filled People (chapter 16)
Jonathan Merritt, “Moving beyond a Fear-Based Faith,” Religion News Service, January 19, 2018, https://religionnews.com/2018/01/19/moving-beyond-a-fear-based-faith.
Things More Likely to Kill You Than a Terrorist (chapter 16)
Alex Nowrasteh, “Terrorism and Immigration: A Risk Analysis,” Cato Institute, Policy Analysis 798 (September 13, 2016), 13, https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa798_1_1.pdf.
Kyra Russell, “13 Things More Likely to Kill You Than a Refugee Terrorist,” Odyssey, February 13, 2017, https://www.theodysseyonline.com/13-things-more-likely-kill-than-refugee-terrorist.
Table of Contents
Cover
Endorsements
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Note to the Reader
Introduction
1. Turning Weapons into Farm Tools (and Other Lovely Things)
2. The Mess We Find Ourselves In
3. Gun History 101
4. The Gun Empire
5. Do Black Guns Matter?
Consider This: The Gallery of the Absurd
6. Mythbusting
7. Kids and Guns
8. Another Dark Secret
9. Dudes and Their Guns
10. The Second Amendment and the Sermon on the Mount
Consider This: Laying It All Out There
11. In Guns We Trust
12. Exorcising Demons
13. Christians with Guns
14. Unlearning Violence
Consider This: Matthew 5
15. The Third Way of Jesus
16. Love Casteth Out Fear (and Fear Casteth Out Love)
17. Commonsense Change
18. Reimagining the World
Acknowledgments
Notes
Notes to Sidebars
Back Cover
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