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100 1  Murphy, Chris|q(Christopher Scott),|d1973-|eauthor. 
245 14 The violence inside us :|ba brief history of an ongoing 
       American tragedy /|cChris Murphy. 
246    Brief history of an ongoing American tragedy 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bRandom House,|c[2020] 
300    xiii, 364 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-343) and 
       index. 
520    "The United States is in many ways a model for the world, 
       yet for one of the most fundamental of all human concerns,
       the imperative to keep ourselves and our loved ones free 
       from harm, American ingenuity has failed. Unique in all of
       the developed world, America is bathed in violence. Our 
       churches and schools, our movie theaters and dance clubs 
       and music festivals are no longer safe places to 
       congregate. Our politics is consumed by fear and 
       intimations of violence, and our foreign policy is 
       centered on the violence that we export to the world or 
       can inflict on others. Violence is foundational to America,
       and has become, it seems, America's most insoluble 
       problem. But to solve this problem, we must first 
       understand it. The Violence Inside Us examines the roots 
       of human violence itself and the propensity of people to 
       harm themselves and each other. The result is a carefully 
       researched, deeply emotional, and personal book that 
       dissects America's violence obsession through an 
       evolutionary, historical, and economic lens. And the book 
       takes a hard look at one distinctly American feature: a 
       firearms industry that has for decades manipulated and 
       dominated politics and culture in order to maintain a 
       ghastly status quo and prevent even the most basic anti-
       violence measure from being implemented. Following his 
       profound personal transformation in the wake of the 
       Newtown mass murder and his subsequent immersion in the 
       intertwined issues of freedom and firearms, Senator Chris 
       Murphy dedicated himself to examining America's obsession 
       with violent acts and why we've tolerated them for so long,
       to deeply explore all of the arguments and the latest 
       research on want works and what doesn't, and to establish 
       the steps we must take to change. The Violence Inside Us 
       is the extraordinary result"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Violence|zUnited States|xHistory. 
650  0 Gun control|zUnited States. 
651  0 United States|xSocial conditions. 
651  0 United States|xPolitics and government.