Standing Our Ground ― The Triumph of Faith over Gun Violence: a Mother's Story

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.

Lucia Kay McBath is the national spokesperson and faith and outreach leader for Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. McBath lobbies congressional and state legislators to enact sensible gun laws and supports political candidates for gun reform. The activist is now taking her work a step further and running for Congress in Georgia’s 6th District race. She is regularly interviewed on national television, sits on panels, and delivers keynotes.

Rosemarie Robotham?is?a writer, editor, and literary collaborator.?She started her journalism career traveling the globe as a reporter and writer for the monthly?Life,?and?later?served as a senior editor at Simon & Schuster, and as?the deputy editor of?Essence?magazine, where her stories won numerous awards.?The coauthor of the award-winning?Spirits of the Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century, she is the author of?Jamaica Dreams, a memoir,?Zachary’s Wings,?a novel,?and two collections of fiction and memoir, Mending the World?and?The Bluelight Corner.