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Bezig met laden... Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartelsdoor Ioan Grillo
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HTML:"An eye-opening and riveting account of how guns make it into the black market and into the hands of criminals and drug lords." â??Adam Winkler From the author of El Narco, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade and contributing to the epidemic of mass shootings. The gun control debate is revived with every mass shooting. But far more people die from gun deaths on the street corners of inner city America and across the border as Mexico's powerful cartels battle to control the drug trade. Guns and drugs aren't often connected in our heated discussions of gun control-but they should be. In Ioan Grillo's groundbreaking new work of investigative journalism, he shows us this connection by following the market for guns in the Americas and how it has made the continent the most murderous on earth. Grillo travels to gun manufacturers, strolls the aisles of gun shows and gun shops, talks to FBI agents who have infiltrated biker gangs, hangs out on Baltimore street corners, and visits the ATF gun tracing center in West Virginia. Along the way, he details the many ways that legal guns can cross over into the black market and into the hands of criminals, fueling violence here and south of the border. Simple legislative measures would help close these loopholes, but America's powerful gun lobby is uncompromising in its defense of the hallowed Second Amendment. Perhaps, however, if guns were seen not as symbols of freedom, but as key accessories in our epidemics of addiction, the conversation would shift. Blood Gun Money is that conversation shift Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)363.330973Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Other social problems and services Other Public Safety Concerns Guns Biography; History By Place North America United StatesLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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That reporting is eye-opening. He traces a number of large problems, including international and domestic terrorism, the Central American economic crisis and resulting migration to the US, and the drug trade to illegal weapons trafficking. It's a convincing argument.
The book ends with some sensible prescriptions for ending that trade. Taking those steps wouldn't infringe the Second Amendment's right to bear arms, even as interpreted by most conservatives. But, he argues, it would limit the ability of criminals and terrorists to get them, and reverse some of the social ills that they cause around the world. ( )