Enough Is Enough: How Students Can Join the Fight for Gun Safety
- Subject
- Social Science - Politics & Government
- Age
- Teen
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Simon Pulse/Beyond Words
- Size
- 14.0 cm × 20.6 cm
- ISBN
- 9781582707013
From award-winning author Michelle Roehm McCann comes a young activist’s handbook to joining the fight against gun violence—both in your community and on a national level—to make schools safer for everyone.
Young people are suffering the most from the epidemic of gun violence—as early as kindergarten students are crouching behind locked doors during active shooter drills. Teens are galvanizing to speak up and fight for their right to be safe. They don’t just want to get involved, they want to change the world. Enough Is Enough is a call to action for teens ready to lend their voices to the gun violence prevention movement. This handbook deftly explains America’s gun violence issues—myths and facts, causes and perpetrators, solutions and change-makers—and provides a road map for effective activism.
Told in three parts, Enough Is Enough also explores how America got to this point and the obstacles we must overcome, including historical information about the Second Amendment, the history of guns in America, and an overview of the NRA. Informative chapters include interviews with teens who have survived gun violence and student activists who are launching their own movements across the country. Additionally, the book includes a Q&A with gun owners who support increased gun safety laws.
Young people are suffering the most from the epidemic of gun violence—as early as kindergarten students are crouching behind locked doors during active shooter drills. Teens are galvanizing to speak up and fight for their right to be safe. They don’t just want to get involved, they want to change the world. Enough Is Enough is a call to action for teens ready to lend their voices to the gun violence prevention movement. This handbook deftly explains America’s gun violence issues—myths and facts, causes and perpetrators, solutions and change-makers—and provides a road map for effective activism.
Told in three parts, Enough Is Enough also explores how America got to this point and the obstacles we must overcome, including historical information about the Second Amendment, the history of guns in America, and an overview of the NRA. Informative chapters include interviews with teens who have survived gun violence and student activists who are launching their own movements across the country. Additionally, the book includes a Q&A with gun owners who support increased gun safety laws.
About the author
Michelle Roehm McCannAuthor
Michelle Roehm McCann has worked as a children’s book editor and art director for more than twenty years, as well as writing and compiling several award-winning children’s books of her own. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, two world-rocking kids, and their brilliant cats, Horace and Percy.
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What reviewers said
A handbook explaining why and how readers can do their parts to end gun violence. This is a substantive look at the causes of the serious epidemic of gun violence in America and a how-to manual for making positive changes to create safer schools and communities. Using well-researched facts, this book dispels the myth that nothing can be done. Topics covered include the impact of gun violence on marginalized communities (systemic racism and structural violence, Black Lives Matter, hate crimes), the history of the National Rifle Association, strategies and policies in states that are…
“America is the gun-craziest country in the world,” McCann writes passionately in her deeply researched and highly informative book about guns in America. The statistics she cites are staggering: e.g., a total of 1,297 American children are killed by guns each year; 5,790 more are injured; gun violence is the numbertwo killer of young people, second only to car accidents; 31% of all gun deaths and nearly 50% of gun homicides are young people; and there are many more, a number of them presented in the form of numerous charts and graphs. This lively and smoothly written book is replete with…
This is one of the most important books to purchase for your library, particular given the large number of mass shootings that have occurred in the United States in recent years. The author does a tremendous job of explaining the issues surrounding gun control and gun violence and provides information about people involved in gun control issues and why they become involved. It provides perspectives from both sides of the issue, as many of the individuals profiled include those who strongly believe in everyone’s right to have a gun, but who believe that doing so should be done with much…
MCCANN, Michelle Roehm. Enough Is Enough: How Students Can Join the Fight for Gun Safety. 320p. further reading. glossary. notes. Atria/Beyond Words. Oct. 2019. Tr $22.99. ISBN 9781582707006; pap. $12.99. ISBN 9781582707013.
Gr 7 Up–With students becoming more involved in gun control debate and activism, this encompassing and attractively designed overview of the facts, effects, and advice from gun control activists will capture the attention of many teen readers. The acknowledgement that urban gun violence went ignored long before mass shootings began to increase is welcome, as are statistics and detailed explanations of how gun violence uniquely impacts women, the LGBTQ community, and BIPOC. Readers are introduced to teens involved in gun control activism—many of those profiled have either been personally…
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