#  Caroline Light's Book on Gun Violence Featured on NPR 

 





June 03, 2022

 

 

 Professor [Caroline Light’s](/people/caroline-light) book, *[Stand Your Ground: A History Of America's Love Affair With Lethal Self-Defense](http://www.beacon.org/Stand-Your-Ground-P1254.aspx) (Beacon Press, 2017)* is featured on *NPR’s* list of “[5 books that try to help explain the unexplainable: the U.S. gun violence epidemic](https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1101494064/5-books-that-try-to-help-explain-the-unexplainable-the-u-s-gun-violence-epidemic).

 Caroline Light is the author of *Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense* (Beacon Press, 2017). Her blog, [In the Crosshairs](https://hphr.org/columnist-dr-caroline-light/), appears on the website of the School of Public Health's *HPHR Journal.*



 

 

 



 

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