{"product_id":"9781501187780","title":"Standing Our Ground : The Triumph of Faith Over Gun Violence: A Mother's Story","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eStanding Our Ground\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Lucy McBath\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the national spokesperson for Everytown for Gun Safety and leading gun violence prevention advocate comes the riveting memoir of a mother’s loss and call to action, as well as a faith-based exploration of how the nation’s gun laws put a deadly target on American lives\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucia Kay McBath knew deep down that a bullet could one day take her son. After all, she had watched the news of countless unarmed black men unjustly gunned down. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStanding Our Ground\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e: Putting Faith in God Over Faith in Guns \u003c\/i\u003eis McBath’s memoir of raising, loving, and losing her son to gun violence, and the story of how she transformed her pain into activism. After seventeen-year-old Jordan Davis was shot by a man who thought the music playing on his car stereo was too loud, the nation grieved yet again for the unnecessary loss of life. Here, McBath goes beyond the timeline and the assailant’s defense—Stand Your Ground—to present an emotional account of her fervent fight for justice, and her awakening to a cause that will drive the rest of her days.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBut more than McBath’s story or that of her son, \u003ci\u003eStanding Our Ground \u003c\/i\u003ekeenly observes the social and political evolution of America’s gun culture. A must-read for anyone concerned with gun safety in America, it harkens back to such bestsellers as \u003ci\u003eThe Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNobody\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“Moving, poignant… a heartfelt call to action for advocates of common-sense gun laws.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"Lucy McBath turned her own personal tragedy into action by becoming a staunch advocate for civil and human rights. Lucy is a truth-teller, justice warrior, a fighter, and a crusader in her quest to lift the humanity of the most vulnerable amongst us. I look to her for inspiration daily.\" \u003cbr\u003e “Lucy, in the face of tragedy, turned her sorrow into a strategy, and her mourning into a movement.” \u003cbr\u003e“What awes me about Lucia is not simply the fact of having endured the loss of a child in the manner she did, but her sheer strength of character, which has allowed her to turn that loss into our gain. Lucia has taken it as her mission to live beyond the pain of her loss and to prevent more of our children from meeting at those crossroads.” \u003cbr\u003e“[A]cross the nation . . . Lucy has become the David to the gun lobby’s Goliath, proving that when gun violence survivors and mothers speak out, we can and will win.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501187780\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"37 Ink","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40590834041038,"sku":"9781501187780","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_f51ab448-7380-4a64-af00-65c00d169362.jpg?v=1637743737","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501187780","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}