This book uses the 2015 Charleston shooting as a case study to analyze the connections between race, rhetoric, religion, and the growing trend of mass gun violence in the United States. The authors claim that this analysis fills a gap in rhetorical scholarship that can lead to increased understanding of the causes and motivations of these crimes.

Contributions by: Luke D. Christie, Patricia G. Davis, David A. Frank, Margaret Franz, Daniel A. Grano, Donna Hunter, Melody Lehn, Camille K. Lewis, Sean Patrick O'Rourke, Samuel P. Perry, Craig Rood