The Violence Inside Us: A Temporary Historical past of an Ongoing American Tragedy

“An engrossing, shifting, and completely motivating account of the human stakes of gun violence in America.”—Samantha Energy, Pulitzer Prize–profitable creator of The Schooling of an Idealist

Is America destined to all the time be a violent nation? This sweeping historical past by U.S. senator Chris Murphy explores the origins of our violent impulses, the roots of our obsession with firearms, and the mythologies that stop us from confronting our nationwide disaster.

 
In some ways, the USA units the tempo for different nations to comply with. But on crucial human concern—the necessity to preserve ourselves and our family members secure from bodily hurt—America isn’t a pacesetter. We’re disturbingly laggard. To confront this drawback, we should first perceive it. On this rigorously researched and deeply emotional ebook, Senator Chris Murphy dissects our nation’s violence-filled historical past and the position that our distinctive obsession with firearms performs on this nationwide epidemic. 
 
Murphy tells the story of his profound private transformation within the wake of the mass homicide at Newtown, and his subsequent immersion within the sophisticated internet of influences that drive American violence. Murphy involves the conclusion that whereas America’s relationship to violence is certainly distinctive, America isn’t inescapably violent. At the same time as he particulars the explanations we’ve tolerated a lot bloodshed for therefore lengthy, he explains that we’ve got the ability to vary. Murphy takes on the acquainted arguments, obliterates the stale speaking factors, and charts the way in which to a recent, much less polarized dialog about violence and the weapons that allow it—a dialog we urgently want with a view to remodel the nationwide dialogue and save lives.