Standing Our Ground
The Triumph of Faith Over Gun Violence: A Mother's Story
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- 159,00 kr
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- 159,00 kr
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From the national spokesperson for Everytown for Gun Safety and a mother who “turned her sorrow into a strategy and her mourning into a movement” (Hillary Clinton) comes the riveting memoir of a mother’s loss and call to action for common-sense gun laws.
Lucia Kay McBath knew deep down that a bullet could one day take her son. After all, she had watched the news of countless unarmed black men unjustly gunned down.
Standing Our Ground is McBath’s moving memoir of raising, loving, and losing her son to gun violence, and the story of how she transformed her pain into activism. After seventeen-year-old Jordan Davis was shot by a man who thought the music playing on his car stereo was too loud, the nation grieved yet again for the unnecessary loss of life. Here, McBath goes beyond the timeline and the assailant’s defense—Stand Your Ground—to present an emotional account of her fervent fight for justice, and her awakening to a cause that will drive the rest of her days.
But more than McBath’s story or that of her son, Standing Our Ground keenly observes the social and political evolution of America’s gun culture. A must-read for anyone concerned with gun safety in America, it is a powerful and heartfelt call to action for common-sense gun legislation.
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McBath, a spokesperson for Everytown for Gun Safety, narrates the gut-wrenching story of her son's 2012 murder and its aftermath. Jordan Davis, 17, was in the back seat of a friend's car at a Jacksonville, Fla., convenience store when Michael Dunn, incensed by the boys' loud music and their refusal to turn it down, fired 10 shots into the car, killing Jordan. Dunn, who is white, tried unsuccessfully to argue in court that he shot African-American Davis because he was "standing his ground," a Florida law that gives "individuals who felt endangered the right to shoot and kill and ask questions later." In 2014, Dunn was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. McBath channeled her grief into activism: she served as the community outreach leader for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and spoke at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. She often writes of her faith, and how it emboldened her to forgive her son's murderer (the Lord has asked me... to forgive his murderer"). McBath tells a powerful story, and her grace, humility, and determined spirit will serve as inspiration to many.
