Women & Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in AmericaM.E. Sharpe, 2000 M11 17 - 256 páginas This timely and provocative book looks at contemporary American women and their experiences with guns. Scrupulously balanced, this new paperback edition features a new appendix containing a wealth of primary source documents that help illuminate both the dangers and attractions of guns in our society. |
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... attack inside Columbine High School , Littleton , Colorado . The years 1995 through 1999 were distinguished in the United States by a booming economy , falling unemployment , and a surprising decline in the nation's crime rate ...
... attack inside Columbine High School , Littleton , Colorado . The years 1995 through 1999 were distinguished in the United States by a booming economy , falling unemployment , and a surprising decline in the nation's crime rate ...
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... attacks , tradition , the good old days , good government , the modern world , and the future of the country . It makes sense that shocking national events would be followed by exer- cises in national self - criticism . Many people ...
... attacks , tradition , the good old days , good government , the modern world , and the future of the country . It makes sense that shocking national events would be followed by exer- cises in national self - criticism . Many people ...
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... attack me physically , and I kind of held him back a little bit and yelled at the kids to go upstairs , so they did . And then he grabbed a hold of me and held me against the wall and said : " I'm going to get the gun and blow your head ...
... attack me physically , and I kind of held him back a little bit and yelled at the kids to go upstairs , so they did . And then he grabbed a hold of me and held me against the wall and said : " I'm going to get the gun and blow your head ...
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... attack that killed twelve of their fellow students and a teacher in Littleton , Colorado , in April 1999 , gun control became a front - page issue again . Gun control advocates pressed with renewed hope for a number of measures ...
... attack that killed twelve of their fellow students and a teacher in Littleton , Colorado , in April 1999 , gun control became a front - page issue again . Gun control advocates pressed with renewed hope for a number of measures ...
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Women and Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in America Deborah Homsher Vista previa limitada - 2015 |
Women and Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in America: Politics ... Deborah Homsher Vista previa limitada - 2015 |
Women & Guns: Politics and the Culture of Firearms in America Deborah Homsher Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
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Página 157 - This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty.
Página 33 - Ohio, rolling in silent dignity, and m-arking the western boundary of Kentucky with inconceivable grandeur. At a vast distance I beheld the mountains lift their venerable brows and penetrate the clouds. All things were still.
Página 157 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles however specious the pretexts.
Página 33 - I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought, just at the close of day the gentle gales retired, and left the place to the disposal of a profound calm. Not a breeze shook the most tremulous leaf. I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
Página 34 - There was always a bottle present, so that it would seem to him that those fine fierce instants of heart and brain and courage and wiliness and speed were concentrated and distilled into that brown liquor which not women, not boys and children, but only hunters drank, drinking not of the blood they spilled but some condensation of the wild immortal spirit...
Página 55 - The man must be glad to do a man's work, to dare and endure and to labor; to keep himself, and to keep those dependent upon him. The woman must be the housewife, the helpmeet of the homemaker, the wise and fearless mother of many healthy children. In one of Daudet's powerful and melancholy books he speaks of "the fear of maternity, the haunting terror of the young wife of the present day.
Página 32 - Ever since, the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been a man on the run, harried into the forest and out to sea, down the river or into combat — anywhere to avoid "civilization...
Página 34 - It was of the men, not white nor black nor red, but men, hunters with the will and hardihood to endure and the humility and skill to survive...
Página 225 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past...
Referencias a este libro
The Right to Bear Arms: Rights and Liberties Under the Law Robert J. Spitzer Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |