LEADER 03770nam 22005773 450 001 9910813497403321 005 20230124180934.0 010 $a9781477322635$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9781477317181 024 7 $a10.7560/317181 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6899203 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6899203 035 $a(CKB)21343166500041 035 $a(DE-B1597)625666 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781477322635 035 $a(OCoLC)1343103991 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30788081 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30788081 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921343166500041 100 $a20220304d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFrom a Taller Tower $eThe Rise of the American Mass Shooter 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$a :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource (139 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: McGraw, Seamus From a Taller Tower : University of Texas Press,c2021 9781477317181 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAuthor?s Note -- $tPrologue. The Deepest Silence There Is -- $tChapter 1 The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy -- $tChapter 2 Deliver Us from Evil -- $tChapter 3 To Kill the Last Killer -- $tChapter 4 ??Tis Not Alone My Inky Cloak ? -- $tChapter 5 Jokers Wild -- $tChapter 6 If You See Something, Say Something -- $tChapter 7 A Good Guy with a Gun -- $tChapter 8 I Cling to My Gun, You Cling to Yours -- $tChapter 9 The Fog of War in Peacetime -- $tChapter 10 From a Taller Tower -- $tEpilogue. The Silence between Gunshots -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aWe, as a nation, have become desensitized to the shock and pain in the wake of mass shootings. In the bottomless silence between gunshots, as political stalemate ensures inaction, the killing continues; the dying continues. From a Taller Tower attends to the silence that has left us empty in the aftermath of these atrocities. Veteran journalist Seamus McGraw chronicles the rise of the mass shooter to dismantle the myths we have constructed around the murderers and ourselves. In 1966, America?s first mass shooter, from atop the University of Texas tower, unleashed a new reality: the fear that any of us may be targeted by a killer, and the complicity we bear in granting these murderers the fame or infamy they crave. Addressing individual cases in the epidemic that began in Austin, From a Taller Tower bluntly confronts our obsession with the shooters?and explores the isolation, narcissism, and sense of victimhood that fan their obsessions. Drawing on the experiences of survivors and first responders as well as the knowledge of mental health experts, McGraw challenges the notion of the ?good guy with a gun,? the idolization of guns (including his own), and the reliability of traumatized memory. Yet in this terrible history, McGraw reminds us of the humanity that can stop the killing and the dying. 606 $aMass shootings$zUnited States 606 $aMassacres$zUnited States 606 $aSchool shootings$zUnited States 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General$2bisacsh 610 $agun violence, gun control, guns, mass shootings, mass shooting, school shootings, violence, gun rights, hate crimes, shooting, cultural history, communal violence. 615 0$aMass shootings 615 0$aMassacres 615 0$aSchool shootings 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General. 676 $a364.152340973 676 $a364.152340973 700 $aMcGraw$b Seamus$01664874 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910813497403321 996 $aFrom a Taller Tower$94023180 997 $aUNINA