CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Reign of Terror

1.  Our Daily Dead: Gun Death and Injury in the United States

2.  Supreme Nonsense and Deadly Myths

3.  Women and Children Last

4.  Two Tales of a City

5.  The Third Wave: Beyond the Gunshine State

6.  As Close as You Can Get Without Enlisting

7.  Top Secret: America’s Guns

8.  Paper Tiger

9.  Solutions Worthy of the Name

Afterword

Appendix A A Week of Reported Gun Death and Injury in August 2011

Appendix B Glock Handguns in the News: May 2011–April 2012

Notes