From this selection of readings (some having www links), an opportunity to challenge your thinking about guns, gun control, and gun rights.

• "Shot Stories"
  by Tim Long, SPY Magazine
  What it feels like to get shot. Descriptions of the experience are given by near-famous people. The writer also offers 'the greatest song ever written about getting shot.'

• Firearm Injuries - The Gun Battle Over Science
  by William Kistner, June 1997 Center for Investigative Reporting

• "How Criminals Get Guns," by Dan Noyes, Center for Investigative Reporting
  Why the 'street wisdom' is wrong about how the bad guys get guns.

• "The New Equality" - The National Rifle Association: Money, Firepower and Fear
  This excerpt from Josh Sugarman's book examines the attitudes and sales marketing propelling a surge in female ownership of self-defense handguns.

• "The Story of a Gun: Inside the out-of control world of American firearms" by Erik Larson, The Atlantic January 1993
  This story focuses on a school murder, that almost became a mass slaughter. Larson tracks the gunmaker, the gundealer and the 16 year-old murderer.

• A Merchant of Menace: The Story of a California Gun Dealer by Aura Bland, Center for Investigative Reporting
  A report on one large gundealer with a 25-year history of incidents which reveal the weaknesses of gun laws. Offers a glimpse of how guns are put in the hands of criminals.

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