{"id":96788,"date":"2023-10-13T23:38:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T04:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96788"},"modified":"2023-10-13T23:38:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T04:38:56","slug":"96788","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96788","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Review That Motivates Me Every Day<\/a><\/p>\n

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I recognize that it is probably not healthy to be motivated by negative emotions, but almost every time I sit down to work on my book on American gun culture, I am motivated by a review of my book proposal by someone who works as a public librarian in the United States:<\/p>\n

While the author is an excellent academic and writes very well, it remains impossible to recommend this work.
\nI can appreciate how the author is seeking to break new ground in this field, but I cannot think of a more irresponsible premise.
\nThe United States had 40 mass-shootings by January 24th this year (more shootings than days of the year).
\nAdditionally, the author ignores the consistent research which continues to prove that not only does gun ownership has [sic.] \u201czero evidence of protective effects,\u201d but also increases the odds that one will be shot to death (this includes those not owning guns, but merely living with someone who does).
\nI mean no.
\nThe views put forth here are repressible; built on the backs of the grade school children who continually forfeit their lives.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The \u201cirresponsible premise,\u201d of course, being that guns are normal and normal people use guns.<\/p>\n

This way of seeing drives me every day to try to hold a different mirror up to the reality of guns and gun culture in America.<\/p>\n

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The Review That Motivates Me Every Day I recognize that it is probably not healthy to be motivated by negative emotions, but almost every time I sit down to work on my book on American gun culture, I am motivated by a review of my book proposal by someone who works as a public librarian … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96789,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96788\/revisions\/96789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}