INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN- Guns and violence have been taking lives in the United States for years, but no one has the ability to deal with them.Violence in
America is so institutionalized that if, in some states, anybody dies of natural causes, in fact, he has died of unnatural death.In an
article in the Washington Post titled "How Gun Violence Shatters Lives, and Our Country's Public Life", Alex Kotlowitz writes: Let me first
point out what we already know: It's impossible to think about our nation's gun violence without thinking about the easy availability of
guns.It does seem self-evident that we need to impose some restrictions on guns, restrictions that would make killings and suicides less
Or waiting periods for firearm purchases
Or banning the 3D printing of guns
The problem, of course, is that we're so polarized on matters of gun control that it feels almost Sisyphean
Even in the wake of recent massacres in Colorado and Virginia, gun-control advocates in Congress have thrown in the towel
One senator conceded, "The blunt, stark fact is that there simply aren't enough votes."Today, those who live in the so-called "American
Dream" must also have the constant fear that they may pay a price for this dream.Today, every man and woman in America is horrified to see
the news of shootings in schools and streets.Every bullet that leaves the barrel of a gun can destroy the dream of an American family.It is
American families who have to pay for the boom in the gun marketPaul Auster in his new book titled 'Bloodbath Nation' writes about an
epidemic in America; not the covid epidemic, but the epidemic of violence and murder in his country.Auster wrote this book based on his
personal experiences.Bloodbath Nation focuses on gun violence in America and uses black and white photographs by New York photographer
These photos were taken in the last 2 years and show more than 30 places that have been the site of 30 shootings in recent years in
America.About the authorLike most American boys of his generation, Paul Auster grew up playing with toy six-shooters and mimicking the
gun-slinging cowboys in B Westerns
A skilled marksman by the age of ten, he also lived through the traumatic aftermath of the murder of his grandfather by his grandmother when
his father was a child and knows, through firsthand experience, how families can be wrecked by a single act of gun violence.In this short,
searing book, Auster traces centuries of America's use and abuse of guns, from the violent displacement of the native population to the
forced enslavement of millions, to the bitter divide between embattled gun control and anti-gun control camps that have developed
Over the past 50 years and the mass shootings that dominate the news today.Since 1968, more than one and a half million Americans have been
The numbers are so large and so catastrophic that one must ask why.These crimes are only the tip of the iceberg, says Auster, and American
lives are becoming increasingly saturated and disrupted by gun violence
It is not impossible to register all crimes, but it is exhausting.According to him, gun violence is a personal issue for all Americans, and
"Bloodbath Nation" is also rooted in these old traumas.In this book, Aster goes back in time and clearly shows how the Second Amendment of
the American Constitution, which guarantees the freedom to bear arms, came from the 18th century, and there is no reason why a citizen
should walk the streets with a loaded gun today.In the past decades, 228 cases of armed violence have occurred in American schools and
A country with more than 300 million people and about 393 million firearms
Statistics show that about 40,000 Americans die each year from gun violence, which is equal to the number of those who die on the
roads.Mississippi, Louisiana, Wyoming, Missouri, Alabama, and Alaska top the states with the most gun violence in 2022.Auster's new book is
concise, bitter, and passionately written, but does not offer a solution.He writes that the situation is getting worse every day, not
New York; a city where shootings have soared in the past year
He writes: "The gaps in the United States are steadily turning into great gaps of empty space."The book is a request from both sides of the
story to find a way to avoid more death and sorrow.What they say about the bookAn intimate and powerful rumination on American gun violence
