Publisher Description
Parkland. Las Vegas. Dallas. Orlando. San Bernardino. Paris. Charleston. Sutherland Springs. Newtown. These cities are now known for the people who were shot and killed in them. More Americans have died from guns in the US in the last fifty years than in all the wars in American history. With less than 5% of the world's population, the people of the US own nearly half the world's guns. America also has the most annual gun deaths--homicide, suicide, and accidental gun deaths--at 105 per day, or more than 38,000 per year. Some people say it's a heart problem. Others say it's a gun problem. The authors of Beating Guns believe it's both. This book is for people who believe the world doesn't have to be this way. Inspired by the prophetic image of beating swords into plows, Beating Guns provides a provocative look at gun violence in America and offers a clarion call to change our hearts regarding one of the most significant moral issues of our time. Bestselling author, speaker, and activist Shane Claiborne and Michael Martin show why Christians should be concerned about gun violence and how they can be part of the solution. The authors transcend stale rhetoric and old debates about gun control to offer a creative and productive response. Full-color images show how guns are being turned into tools and musical instruments across the nation. Charts, tables, and facts convey the mind-boggling realities of gun violence in America, but as the authors make clear, there is a story behind every statistic. Beating Guns allows victims and perpetrators of gun violence to tell their own compelling stories, offering hope for change and helping us reimagine the world as one that turns from death to life, where swords become plows and guns are turned into garden tools.
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About the Authors
Shane Claiborne graduated from
Eastern University and performed graduate work at Princeton Seminary. His ministry
experience is varied, from a ten-week stint working alongside Mother Teresa in
Calcutta to a year spent serving a wealthy mega-congregation at Willow Creek
Community Church outside Chicago. During the recent war in Iraq, he spent three
weeks in Baghdad with the Iraq Peace Team. He is also a founding partner of the
Simple Way, a faith community in inner city Philadelphia. He writes and travels
extensively, speaking about peacemaking, social justice, and Jesus. He is
featured in the DVD series Another World Is Possible and is the author of the
several books, including The Irresistible
Revolution, Jesus for President,
and Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers.
His work has been featured in everything from Fox News and CNN to the Wall
Street Journal and National Public Radio.
Michael Martin earned an English degree from the University of the South and a law degree from the University of Florida. A former district attorney, he is a longtime litigator of environmental poisons that affect people and plants. The genesis of The Crestfallen Rose came when women from around the world contacted him about their belief that a pesticide had caused their babies to be born blind.