Ricochet: Guns, Greed, and the American Way of Violence

Three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Mike McIntire delivers the definitive story of the forces that shape gun culture and the American way of violence. Not too long ago, you could still envision a future for America not marked by gun idolatry, blood-stained classrooms, and empty offers of thoughts and prayers.Yet a witches’ brew of politics, money, and ideology has warped gun culture in the United States, hijacking the Second Amendment and allowing fear and insecurity to drive the reckless marketing of powerful weapons.How did our country come to have more guns than people and become one in which just pulling into the wrong driveway can get you shot? In Ricochet, Mike McIntire provides a bold new roadmap for understanding our fraught relationship with guns and violence in America.McIntire crafts a gripping narrative of how the imperatives of war, slavery, crime, commerce and politics intertwined with the development of ever-more lethal firearms, leaving the country divided and trau