Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Deliberating Gun Violence
1 Deliberation and Memory
2 The Weight of the Past: Memory and the Second Amendment
3 The Fleeting Past: Memory and Our Obligations to the Dead
4 The Implicit Past: Memory and Racism
5 Conclusions for Moving Beyond Gridlock
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Craig Rood is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at Iowa State University.
“Written with passion, insight, and eloquence, After Gun Violence
is a compelling exploration of a tragically American
problem—regular, mass gun violence. Aligning himself with readers
as a horrified witness to these deadly recurring events, Craig Rood
balances outrage with perspective, weariness with resolve, sadness
with hope that Americans may achieve mutual understanding on a
topic that has produced mistrust and frustration. Rood respects the
complexity of people’s different beliefs about guns while
articulating a clear vision of a way forward. A stunning
achievement.”—Robert Asen, author of Democracy, Deliberation, and
Education
“A thoughtful and sobering analysis of America’s inability to
engage in serious deliberation about gun violence. Rood traces the
way that past debates have created a sense that the problem is
simply intractable and demonstrates the way recent efforts to deal
with gun violence were crushed under the weight of past failures.
Drawing on the long history of rhetoric, Rood is able not only to
analyze the present difficulties but also to suggest productive
ways to move these debates forward. The stakes for such a project
have never been higher. Rood’s book should be required reading for
any citizen wanting to engage in a real debate about the role of
guns in American society.”—Kendall R. Phillips, co-director, The
Lender Center for Social Justice
“An empowering message of this book resides in the assurance that
while we exist in this world that comes with its own meanings and
past, we have the power within ourselves to change what language
habits we use and pass down.”—Amanda Pasierb Journal of Public
Deliberation
“There could not be a more important time for a book like After Gun
Violence—which connects the timely subjects of liberty, political
discourse, and progress (or lack thereof). Although it was written
with the specific intention of analyzing the gun debate through a
rhetorical, academic lens, the lessons in After Gun Violence can be
applied outside of the ivory tower and more broadly to issues
beyond gun violence.”—Peter Rentzepis World Medical and Health
Policy
“Provides an instructive model for extending rhetorical
interventions into the multifaceted impacts of gun violence,
including police brutality, extremist vigilantism, urban violence,
suicide, and domestic violence. . . . This framework invites
rhetoricians, teachers, and community members to reflect on the
recursive force of memory in the constructions of individual and
collective identity, and it opens the door for further deliberative
interventions into the material, emotional, and rhetorical tolls of
political struggle.”—Richard Branscomb Rhetoric Review
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