Tom Diaz's new book, The Last Gun, picks up where his previous expose, Making a Killing, left off. The first effort turned out to be the most effective antigun book ever written, invariably cited in gun control initiatives after its publication. Diaz was interviewed by Teri Gross on Fresh Aire yesterday.
From the Violence Prevention Center:
“Your grandfather’s shotgun has no place in today’s civilian gun market,” says the author of Militarization of the U.S. Civilian Firearms Market," VPC Senior Policy Analyst Tom Diaz. “The gun industry has created a unique American civilian firearms bazaar which arms thousands of criminals, dangerous extremists, and drug traffickers throughout the world. If Congress wants to find the real causes of the gun traffic to Mexico, it needs to look upstream to the gun industry’s callous transformation of the American gun market into one more suited to warfare than sport. The world’s bad guys come here for their guns because they are cheap and plentiful.”
The study describes how, plagued by declining gun ownership and the explosion of recreational alternatives such as electronic games, the faltering gun industry has relied on creating demand by designing and selling increasingly lethal military-style firepower.
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