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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NON FICTION DAGGER
'A brilliantly researched journey, capturing the gun's strangely accepted place in human life and, far too often, death' JON SNOW
EVERY MINUTE, OF EVERY DAY, SOMEONE SOMEWHERE IS SHOT
There are almost one billion guns across the globe today - more than ever…
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An astonishing well-researched and detailed analysis of the arms trade and the omnipresence of guns in the world today. Full of startling and worrying statistics, for example, that there are 12 billion bullets produced every year which kill at least 500,000 people. The book reveals how in some places it is easier to get a gun than to get a glass of water. Solo killers, the military, the hunters, the paranoid suburban Americans, they are all here, and it is not a pretty picture.
From Norman's list on how the world works.
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