Standing Our Ground: The Triumph Of Faith Over Gun Violence: A Mother's Story

  • Author: Lucia Kay McBath
  • Narrator: Lucia Kay McBath
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 8:00:46
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Synopsis

From 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.

Lucia 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.

Standing Our Ground: Putting Faith in God Over Faith in Guns is 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.

But more than McBath’s story or that of her son, Standing Our Ground keenly 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 The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace and Nobody.

Chapters

  • StandingOurGround 001 Open

    Duration: 49s
  • StandingOurGround 002 Dedication Introduction

    Duration: 18min
  • StandingOurGround 003 Part1 Ch1

    Duration: 32min
  • StandingOurGround 004 Ch2

    Duration: 37min
  • StandingOurGround 005 Ch3

    Duration: 20min
  • StandingOurGround 006 Ch4

    Duration: 14min
  • StandingOurGround 007 Ch5

    Duration: 15min
  • StandingOurGround 008 Ch6

    Duration: 19min
  • StandingOurGround 009 Ch7

    Duration: 29min
  • StandingOurGround 010 Part2 Ch8

    Duration: 31min
  • StandingOurGround 011 Ch9

    Duration: 20min
  • StandingOurGround 012 Ch10

    Duration: 24min
  • StandingOurGround 013 Ch11

    Duration: 23min
  • StandingOurGround 014 Ch12

    Duration: 21min
  • StandingOurGround 015 Ch13

    Duration: 20min
  • StandingOurGround 016 Ch14

    Duration: 12min
  • StandingOurGround 017 Part3 Ch15

    Duration: 15min
  • StandingOurGround 018 Ch16

    Duration: 24min
  • StandingOurGround 019 Ch17

    Duration: 25min
  • StandingOurGround 020 Ch18

    Duration: 22min
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