Gun Baby Gun: A Bloody Journey Into The World Of The Gun - Plot & Excerpts
THE LOBBYISTS Strange animals in Maputo, Mozambique meeting an anti-gun campaigner and ex-child soldier – sickness in New York as the Arms Trade Treaty comes into force – an American lobbyist and a power breakfast – the National Rifle Association’s rhetoric examined – how the pro-gun lobby hijacked the horror of Sandy Hook, Massachusetts – meeting zombies in Orange County, New York State – an insight into the American gun psyche at the London School of Economics It was 25 June 2014 and a national holiday. The streets of Maputo, Mozambique’s seaside capital, for the most part lay empty. The solid fin-de-siècle buildings were silent behind their elaborate wooden doors, save for the occasional sound of plates being put down for an early lunch. Men played checkers outside one of the humidity-streaked homes, their game caught in the shade of spreading trees. There was an air of peace so different from this day in 1975, when the Portuguese had pulled out. Realising that colonialism had had its time, they left, destroying cars and pouring concrete down wells, and in so doing they planted the seeds of anarchy and violence that were to blossom into a bloody civil war less than a decade later.
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