Giving Up the Gun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Giving Up the Gun write by Noel Perrin. This book was released on 1979. Giving Up the Gun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lord Hideyoshi, the regent of Japan at the time, took the first step toward the control of firearms. It was a very small step, and it was not taken simply to protect feudal lords from being shot at by peasants but to get all weapons out of the hands of civilians. He said nothing about arms control. Instead, he announced that he was going to build a statue of Buddha that would make all existing statues look like midgets. It would be so enormous (the figure was about twice the scale of the Statue of Liberty), that many tons of iron would be needed just for the braces and bolts. Still more was required to erect the accompanying temple, which was to cover a piece of ground something over an eighth of a mile square. All farmers, ji-samurai, and monks were invited to contribute their swords and guns to the cause. They were, in fact, required to. -- from publisher description.
Give a Boy a Gun
Give a Boy a Gun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Give a Boy a Gun write by Todd Strasser. This book was released on 2012-10-09. Give a Boy a Gun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Todd Strasser’s acclaimed account of school violence that Kirkus Reviews calls “vivid, distressing, and all too real.” For as long as they can remember, Brendan and Gary have been mercilessly teased and harassed by the jocks who rule Middletown High. But not anymore. Stealing a small arsenal of guns from a neighbor, they take their classmates hostage at a school dance. In the panic of this desperate situation, it soon becomes clear that only one thing matters to Bendan and Gary: revenge.
The Night of the Gun
The Night of the Gun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Night of the Gun write by David Carr. This book was released on 2012-12-11. The Night of the Gun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. David Carr was an addict for more than twenty years -- first dope, then coke, then finally crack -- before the prospect of losing his newborn twins made him sober up in a bid to win custody from their crack-dealer mother. Once recovered, he found that his recollection of his 'lost' years differed -- sometimes radically -- from that of his family and friends. The night, for example, his best friend pulled a gun on him. 'No,' said the friend (to David's horror, as a lifelong pacifist), 'It was you that had the gun.' Using all his skills as an investigative reporter, he set out to research his own life, interviewing everyone from his parents and his ex-partners to the policemen who arrested him, the doctors who treated him and the lawyers who fought to prove he was fit to have custody of his kids. Unflinchingly honest and beautifully written, the result is both a shocking account of the depths of addiction and a fascinating examination of how -- and why -- our memories deceive us. As David says, we remember the stories we can live with, not the ones that happened.
This Is Not a Gun
This Is Not a Gun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This Is Not a Gun write by Cara Levine. This book was released on 2020-04. This Is Not a Gun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Gun
The Gun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gun write by Paul Langan. This book was released on 2002. The Gun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tyray Hobbs wants revenge. Weeks ago he was one of the most feared students in Bluford High. But then Darrell Mercer publicly humiliated him, and Tyray lost his reputation. To get it back, he must take down Darrell. But how? With a broken hand, a troubled family, and no friends in sight, Tyray's options are limited. And when the kids he once bullied start threatening him his world completely unravels. Desperate to settle the score and regain respect, Tyray see only ones solution to his problems-- a gun.
