Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives (46 page)

38
. “The Smith & Wesson Sellout,” NRA-ILA, March 20, 2000,
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20000320/the-smith-wesson-sellout
.

39
. Michael S. Rosenwald, “‘We Need the iPhone of Guns’: Will Smart Guns Transform the Gun Industry?,”
Washington Post,
February 17, 2014,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/we-need-the-iphone-of-guns-will-smart-guns-transform-the-gun-industry/2014/02/17/6ebe76da-8f58-11e3-b227-12a45d109e03_story.html
.

40
. Dan Roberts et al., “Tearful Obama Tightens Gun Control and Tells Inactive Congress: ‘We Can’t Wait,”
Guardian,
January 5, 2016,
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/05/obama-gun-control-executive-action-background-checks-licenses-gun-shows-mental-health-funding
.

41
. Joel Rose, “A New Jersey Law That’s Kept Smart Guns off Shelves Nationwide,” NPR, June 24, 2015,
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/06/24/325178305/a-new-jersey-law-thats-kept-smart-guns-off-shelves-nationwide
.

42
. Rosenwald, “‘We Need the iPhone of Guns.’”

43
. Ibid.

44
. “Poll Finds Americans Skeptical of So-Called Smart Guns,” NRAILA, November 15, 2013,
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20131115/poll-finds-americans-skeptical-of-so-called-smart-guns
.

45
. Jeremy W. Peters, “‘Smart’ Firearm Draws Wrath of the Gun Lobby,”
New York Times,
April 28, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/us/politics/smart-firearm-draws-wrath-of-the-gun-lobby.html
.

46
. Michael S. Rosenwald, “Threats Against Maryland Gun Dealer Raise Doubts About Future of Smart Guns,”
Washington Post,
May 2, 2015,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/threats-against-maryland-gun-dealer-raise-doubts-about-future-of-smart-guns/2014/05/02/8a4f7482-d227-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html
.

47
. U.S. General Accounting Office,
Accidental Shootings: Many Deaths and Injuries Caused by Firearms Could Be Prevented,
March 1991,
http://www.gao.gov/assets/160/150353.pdf
, 4.

CHAPTER SIX

1
. Monica Rhor, “Immigrants from Around the World Are Transforming Houston,”
Houston Chronicle,
March 5, 2015,
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/themillion/article/How-diversity-culture-demographics-of-Houston-6117301.php
.

2
. John Berger,
A Seventh Man: Migrant Workers in Europe
(New York: Viking Press, 1975).

3
. Probinso2013, “From Swingersville to the Gulfton Ghetto, A Brief History,” Disposition Disposal (blog), June 8, 2013,
https://dispositiondisposal.wordpress.com/2013/06/08/from-swingersville-to-the-gulfton-ghetto-a-brief-history/
.

4
. Ryan Pintado-Vertner, “The War on Youth,”
Colorlines,
December 10, 1999,
http://www.colorlines.com/articles/war-youth
.

5
. Foti Kallergis, Twitter, November 24, 2013,
https://twitter.com/heykitty/status/404484915460190208
.

CHAPTER SEVEN

1
. Valerie Boyd,
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
(New York: Scribner, 2003), 65.

2
. Quoted in Nancy Gibbs, “An American Tragedy: The Aftermath of Katrina,”
Time,
September 4, 2005,
http://time.com/3210311/hurricane-katrina-the-aftermath/
.

3
. Jens Manuel Krogstad, “Gun Homicides Steady After Decline in ‘90s; Suicide Rate Edges Up,” Pew Research Center, October 21, 2015,
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/10/21/gun-homicides-steady-after-decline-in-90s-suicide-rate-edges-up/
. Also see
http://www.childtrends.org/?indicators=teen-homicide-suicide-and-firearm-deaths
.

4
. Chris Kirk and Dan Kois, “How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?”
Slate,
September 16, 2013,
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2012/12/gun_death_tally_every_american_gun_death_since_newtown_sandy_hook_shooting.html
.

5
. Dan Kois, “A Year of Gun Deaths,”
Slate,
December 12, 2013,
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2013/12/newtown_anniversary_what_slate_learned_from_trying_and_failing_to_record.html
.

6
. Joe Nocera, “And in Last Week’s Gun News,”
New York Times,
January 29, 2013,
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/opinion/nocera-and-in-last-weeks-gun-news.html
.

7
. Adam Weinstein, “The
Times
Killed Its Gun Report After the Writer Asked for a Raise,” Gawker, June 20, 2014,
http://gawker.com/the-times-killed-its-gun-report-after-the-writer-aske-1592851849
.

8
. Joe Nocera, “The Last Gun Report,”
New York Times,
June 10, 2014,
http://nocera.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/the-last-gun-report/?_r=0
.

9
. Melissa Repko, “Teen Fatally Shot when Walking Down Street in Southeast Dallas,”
Dallas Morning News,
November 24, 2013,
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2013/11/teen-fatally-shot-when-walking-down-street-in-southeast-dallas.html/
.

10
. “Dallas Teen Killed by Random Gunfire,” Fox 4,
fox4news.com
(story removed from site).

11
. Susan D. Moeller,
Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War, and Death
(New York: Routledge, 1999), or see
http://www.savan.nl/data/IntroductiontoCompassion-fatigue_Moeller.pdf
.

12
. Stanley Cohen,
States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering
(Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2013), 194.

13
. Walter Lippmann,
Public Opinion,
11, or see
http://wps.pearsoncustom.com/wps/media/objects/2429/2487430/pdfs/lippmann.pdf
.

14
. Table: “Average and Median Amounts of Net Compensation,” Social Security Administration,
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html
(accessed April 13, 2016).

15
. For 2013 personal income of $28,031, see
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html
.

16
. Lars Willnat and David H. Weaver,
The American Journalist in the Digital Age
(Bloomington, IN: School of Journalism, Indiana University, 2014),
http://news.indiana.edu/releases/iu/2014/05/2013-american-journalist-key-findings.pdf
.

17
. Quoted in Michael E. Young, “Dallas Morning News Wins Pulitzer for Editorial Writing,”
The Dallas Morning News,
April 13, 2010,
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/dallas/headlines/20100413-Dallas-Morning-News-wins-Pulitzer-for-5971.ece
.

18
. Jesmyn Ward,
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
(New York: Bloomsbury, 2013), 237.

19
. Quoted in Harvey J. Graff,
The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008), 17.

20
. “JFK Death Not Associated with Dallas,”
The Southeast Missourian,
November 20, 1988,
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1893&dat=19881120&id=1LYfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S9cEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5675,2700778&hl=en
.

21
. Molly Ivins,
Molly Ivins Can’t Say That, Can She
? (New York: Random House, 1991), 37.

22
. Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton,
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), 75.

23
. Quoted in Graff,
The Dallas Myth,
19.

24
. Ibid., 127.

25
. “Quick Facts, Dallas, Texas,” United States Census Bureau,
http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/4819000
(accessed March 2, 2016).

26
. Sam Howe Verhovek, “Dallas Is First Big Texas City to Elect a Black to Be Mayor,”
New York Times,
May 8, 1995,
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/08/us/dallas-is-first-big-texas-city-to-elect-a-black-to-be-mayor.html
.

27
. Graff,
The Dallas Myth,
169.

28
. Jason DeParle et al., “Older, Suburban and Struggling, ‘Near Poor’ Startle the Census,”
New York Times,
November 19, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/19/us/census-measures-those-not-quite-in-poverty-but-struggling.html?_r=0
.

29
. Hope Yen, “4 in 5 US Adults Face Near-Poverty, No Work for at Least Parts of Their Lives,”
Business Insider,
July 28, 2013,
http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-poll-4-in-5-us-adults-face-near-poverty-no-work-for-at-least-parts-of-their-lives-2013–7
.

30
. Ibid.

31
. Joseph E. Stiglitz,
The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future
(London: Allen Lane, 2012), 10.

32
. “Census Tract 116.01, Dallas County, Texas,” Table: Data,
USBoundary.com
,
http://www.usboundary.com/Areas/Census%20Tract/Texas/Dallas%20County/Census%20Tract%20116.01/493345#Data
(accessed April 13, 2016).

CHAPTER EIGHT

1
. Brandy Zadrozny, “The Year in Murder: 2013 Marks a Historic Low for Many Cities,”
The Daily Beast,
January 1, 2014,
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/01/the-year-in-murder-2013-marks-a-historic-low-for-many-cities.html
.

2
. Gary Younge, “Gun Violence in Chicago: A Struggle for Answers in Obama’s Hometown,”
Guardian,
February 12, 2013,
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/12/barack-obama-gun-violence-chicago
.

3
. “Crime in the United States 2012,” Table 8, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/8tabledatadecpdf/table-8-state-cuts/table_8_offenses_known_to_law_enforcement_by_illinois_by_city_2012.xls
(accessed May 13, 2016). Compared to “Crime in the United States 2011,” Table 8, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table8state-cuts/table_8_offenses_known_to_law_enforcement_illinois_by_city_2011.xls
(accessed May 13, 2016).

4
. Matt Pearce, “10 Dead, 43 Wounded in Chicago’s Bloody Holiday Weekend,”
Los Angeles Times,
May 29, 2012,
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/29/nation/la-na-nn-bloody-chicago-weekend-20120529
.

5
. See
ICASulaTies.org
, “Operation Enduring Freedom, Coalition Military Fatalities by Year,”
http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx
(accessed May 13, 2016). Compared to “Uniform Crime Reports,” Federal Bureau of Investigation, UCR Publications, Crime in the United States,
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/ucr-publications#Crime
(accessed May 13, 2016).