description: This devastating book begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Lethal Passage
titlecomplete: Lethal Passage
genres: Sociology, True Crime, Crime, History, Historical, Social Issues, Politics, Journalism, Unfinished, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1694
publisher: Random House Value Publishing