1. The Only Thing That Stops a Bad Guy with Rhetoric Is a Good Guy with Rhetoric

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Rhetoric and Guns 1
5. 1. The Only Thing That Stops a Bad Guy with Rhetoric Is a Good Guy with Rhetoric 19
6. 2. Muzzle Velocity, Rhetorical Mass, and Rhetorical Force 32
7. 3. Hunting Firearms: Rhetorical Pursuits of Range and Power 49
8. 4. The Gun as (Race/Gender) Technê 69
9. 5. The Rhetoric of Open Carry: Living with the Nonverbal Presence of Guns 83
10. 6. The Activism Gap and the Rhetoric of (Un)Certainty 100
11. 7. This Is America on Guns: Rhetorics of Acquiescence and Resistance to Privatized Gun Violence 118
12. 8. “The Last Mass Shooting”: Anticipating the End of Mass Shootings, Yet Again 135
13. 9. Campus Carry, Academic Freedom, and Rhetorical Sensitivity 151
14. 10. National News Coverage of White Mass Shooters: Perpetuating White Supremacy through Strategic Rhetoric 169
15. 11. Guns and Freedom: The Second Amendment Rhetoric of Turning Point USA 185
16. 12. Hiding Guns in Schools: The Rhetoric of US Mass Shootings 199
17. 13. A Non-Defensive Gun: Violence, Climate Catastrophe, and Rhetorical Education 218
18. 14. Talking Together about Guns: TTAG and Sustainable Publics 236
19. Afterword 252
20. Index 261
21. Contributors 273