Author(s): Patrick Blanchfield

Cultural Studies

For those tired of the predictable, and predictably exhausting, cycles of horror, outrage, and resignation that have defined American debates over guns, Gunpower offers a critical orientation and vital toolkit not just for metabolizing the latest gun tragedies, but for navigating a new landscape of protest, organizing, and political possibility. If we are to have any hope of ending the cycle of violence that has brought us to our present moment, we must perceive the structures that underlie it and break the seductive lures and abundant traps of American gunpower. One way or another, after finishing Gunpower, readers will never look at gun control debates, or American violence in general, the same way again.