7 children in America are killed by guns every day. Fact.
This is the ‘white noise’ in American news left unreported,
and Gary Younge’s book, Another day in the
death of America, takes just one of these many days, 23rd
November 2013.On that day ten children and teenagers were shot dead.
Younge makes it very clear - and does so especially to
American audiences - that this book is not about gun control; it’s about what
happens when there is no gun control in place. And in no other country would
this book be possible.
When speaking to the families of these kids Gary Younge began by asking
them “What is this about?”. An open-ended
question. And nobody mentioned guns. The notion of not having a gun within American
society, to them, was unfathomable.
Younge then spoke on how every country has its own personal
myths, and America’s is their view on freedom. Younge revealed he had once been
told that, “You do not understand it because you are not free.” In the eyes of
pro-gun Americans not having a gun not being free.
Younge’s analogy for how he believes that guns are not the initial
problem was intriguing. The gun is only the spark residing on top of a huge
pile of tinder. Beneath it lies poverty, racism and inequality. You add the gun on top and you finally see what happens.
The problem of firearms is therefore much deeper than Americans
and the rest of the world would like to believe.
L.A. Smith
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