What we've become: living and dying in a country of arms

Introduction

Part 1. The seventeenth count: Jesus loves me ; The seventeenth count ; Fait accompli

Part 2. The insanity of the system: Elllipsis ; Enter public health ; He did not want to hurt Taylor Swift or anyone else ; America is the biggest gang in the world ; The terms of the debate ; If you tell it forward ; The insanity of the system ; Heaven's gate ; Repetition compulsion ; Sovereign ; Travis assisted us in retrieving all his weapons and ammunition ; We let go of balloons ; Everybody knew ; Complete darkness ; Below the dickey line ; In cold blood ; If you needed something, he was there for you ; A public health of consequence ; In the name of the father ; The chase

Part 3. The scene of the crime: Waffle House ; Forty-two seconds ; Pussy killed my dawg ; A world of quiet and broken glass ; Waffle House shooting : full press conference with hero who stopped gunman ; The underbrush ; In memoriam

Part 4. The reckoning: Health ; Race ; Justice ; Where do we go from here? ; Epilogue: The guns of New York and the war of Southern aggression.

Acknowledgments

[Bibliographical] notes (pages 311-353)

Index.