In this week’s and next week’s Light Over Heat videos, I lay out my Top 10 books on guns in America. This week I cover books #10 to #6.

See below for the list and links.

Books #10 to #6 of my Top 10:

(10) Newton, George D., and Franklin E. Zimring. 1969. Firearms and Violence in American Life. Washington, DC: National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/firearms-and-violence-american-life

(9) Cramer, Clayton E. 2006. Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How And Why Guns Became As American As Apple Pie. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Inc. https://bookshop.org/a/85868/9781595552846

(8) Tonso, William R. 1982. Gun and Society: The Social and Existential Roots of the American Attachment to Firearms. Washington, D.C: University Press of America. https://www.amazon.com/Gun-Society-Existential-American-Attachment/dp/0819123781

(7) Johnson, Nicholas. 2014. Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books. https://bookshop.org/a/85868/9781616148393

(6) Kohn, Abigail A. 2004. Shooters: Myths and Realities of America’s Gun Cultures. New York: Oxford University Press. https://bookshop.org/a/85868/9780195306446

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