Grandmothers Against GunViolence Lending Library

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Grandmothers Against Gun Violence Lending Library

Educating our members in gun violence prevention is a large part of our mission to end gun violence. Here we have listed books and movies you can borrow as well as sources that you can access to keep you up to date on the issues. If you would like to donate a book, just ask Kim Evans, our new librarian.

Kim will have these materials at our in-person meetings and arrangements can be made for pick up when we are not meeting in person. Just email us at capecodgagv@gmail.com with the subject line “Library” and your request, and we will get back to you with pickup arrangements.

Books
The Violence Project, by Jillian Petersen, Ph.D, and James Densely, Ph.D. The Legacy He Left Me, by Lovern Gordon (Domestic Abuse) Children Under Fire: An American Crisis, by John Woodrow Cox The Second Amendment, by Michael Waldman Gun Fight, by Adam Winkler Gun Guys “A Road Trip”, by Dan Baum Newtown “An American Tragedy”, by Mathew Lysiak Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill, by Lt. Col Dave Grossman and Gloria DeGaetano As Good as She Imagined, by Roxanna Green Parkland, by Dave Cullen Never Again, by David Hogg and Lauren Hogg Fight Like a Mother, by Shannon Watts (Founder of Moms Demand Action) Helping The Good Do Better, by Thomas F Sheridan The Gun Debate (What Everyone Needs to Know), by Philip J Cook and Kristin A Goss Pediatric Collections — Firearm-Related Injuries and Preventions , by the American Academy of Pediatrics

Movies
	American Gun Requiem For the Dead The Armor of Light Living for 32 91 Percent Shot After Parkland

Sources

There are many useful sources for information on the gun violence issue. We encourage reading gun violence prevention material as well as gun advocacy material to be well informed. You will find some gun advocacy links below also.

Brady Campaign	Mayors Against Illegal Guns
Center for American Progress	Moms Demand Action
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence	MomsRising
Connecticut Against Gun Violence	National Rifle Association
Do Something	Newtown Action Alliance
Everytown for Gun Safety	Samaritans on Cape Cod and the Islands
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence	Sandy Hook Promise
Gun Owners’ Action League	Stop Handgun Violence
Gun Violence Archive	The Trace: Investigating Gun Violence in America
Guns to Carry	Women Against Gun Violence
Massachusetts Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence

Articles

Our articles section is composed at this point of older articles which you can take out. Our plan going forward is to have members forward links to more current material they find of value that will be posted every few months here. Please forward article links to capecodgagv@gmail.com with the subject line ARTICLE. The SOURCES section above is an excellent place to get up to date information. The Trace publishes twice a week and is very current.

Reader Recommendations
From Donna Wald, President of Grandmothers Against Gun Violence:
	Book The Violence Project, by Jillian Petersen, Ph.D, and James Densely, Ph.D., is a research-oriented, scholarly examination of the some of the mass shooters who were willing to be interviewed. It is one of the first to actually look at mass shooters as human beings with life stories that give us a unique insight into the drivers of this type of shooting. This book offers many insights and solutions that we need to address to be successful in curbing the mass shooting crisis. They offer solutions that they believe could save lives . . . what we can do as individuals, as institutions and as societies to curb the shootings. A unique, must read.
From Jen Balboni, Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Curry College:
	Books Tangled up in Blue, by Rosa Brooks, is such a unique perspective (Georgetown law professor & auxiliary cop). Brooks is one of the folks who is working on the ABLE training I mentioned at Georgetown. Just Pursuit, by Laura Coates, talks about the complexity of being a Black prosecutor in the federal system, and contains excellent snapshots of work in this area and what it means to pursue “justice.” Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson, should be required reading for anyone interested in justice. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist, by Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington, deals with wrongful convictions, and how they happen (particularly in the nature/history of the South). This is a well-researched book. It reminds me a little of All God’s Children with the level of history is explores. Podcast In the Dark — Season 2 is about Curtis Flowers (a case which went up to the Supreme Court, in part due to the investigative reporting in this podcast) and is the gold standard for podcasts. (It is required listening in my Criminal Procedure class). I cannot recommend this highly enough. I have yet to meet anyone who was not moved by that story.
From Kathleen Glueck, Board Member, Grandmothers:
	Books Fight Like a Mother, by Shannon Watts (Moms Demand Action). The chapter titles of this book really hit the issues of volunteering to fight for gun safety. One after another, Watts shows how "we build the plane as we fly it”. I recommend it for clarity about the issues and knowing background, players and goals in the movement. Helping the Good Do Better, by Thomas F Sheridan. After hearing Tom Sheridan speak, I felt his message applied to Grandmothers, not just movements listed as Chapter titles. In the Prologue on page xiii, he notes in the second paragraph, how the work of “participating in advocacy is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity” – this is what bolsters and drives some of us in making our voices heard. To be silent suggests complicity or lack of concern.