| Contents |
Introduction : Rhetoric and guns / Nate Kreuter, Lydia Wilkes, and Ryan Skinnell -- The only thing that stops a bad guy with rhetoric is a good guy with rhetoric / Patricia Roberts-Miller -- Muzzle velocity, rhetorical mass, and rhetorical force / Nate Kreuter -- Hunting firearms : rhetorical pursuits of range and power / Brian Ballentine -- The gun as (race/gender) technê / Lisa M. Corrigan -- The rhetoric of open carry : living with the nonverbal presence of guns / Ian E. J. Hill -- The activism gap and the rhetoric of (un)certainty / Craig Rood -- This is America on guns : rhetorics of acquiescence and resistance to privatized gun violence / Lydia Wilkes -- "The last mass shooting" : anticipating the end of mass shootings, yet again / Bradley A. Serber -- Campus carry, academic freedom, and rhetorical sensitivity / Kendall Gerdes -- National news coverage of white mass shooters : perpetuating white supremacy through strategic rhetoric / Scott Gage -- Guns and freedom : the second amendment rhetoric of Turning Point USA / Matthew Boedy -- Hiding gun and bullets in school shootings : the rhetoric of the gun industry in America's mass shootings / Nathalie Kuroiwa-Lewis -- A non-defensive gun : violence, climate catastrophe, and rhetorical education / Ira J. Allen -- Talking together about guns : TTAG and sustainable publics / Peter D. Buck, Bradley A. Serber, and Rosa A. Eberly. |
| Abstract |
"Analyzes rhetoric about guns, guns in rhetoric, and guns as rhetoric, particularly as they relate to instances of guns in culture. Attempts to understand rhetoric's relationship to guns and how they function in and as rhetoric related to media coverage, political speech, marketing, and advertising"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Rhetoric and guns Logan : Utah State University Press, [2022] 9781646422159 |
| LCCN | 2021050438 |
| ISBN | 9781646422142 paperback |
| ISBN | 1646422147 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| Standard identifier# |
40031069225 |
