This book provides eye-opening, scrapbook-like details of recent mass killings (as well as mass shootings) in America. It is a collage built from news clips, fragments of information from the front line of a crime scene, eyewitness accounts, moving words from families of victims, survivors, and contributions by the author. It is a stark lesson in current events for all Americans, and a not-so-subtle call for change in the status quo.

RG Gardner is a writer, editor, and Indie author with a FULL CONTACT focus on the power and potential of the written word. He's served as a communications strategy expert for such Fortune 500 corporations as RCA, GE, Lockheed Martin, and Computer Sciences Corporation. As a creative artist and change agent, he is also committed to creating content in any form that advances the forces of constructive and positive activism.

Gardner's book, "Full Contact Writing: How to Win With Fearless Communication in a 'Show No Mercy' Workplace,"continues to draw high praise from professionals at all organizational levels and disciplines. In addition, his constantly expanding and ever-eclectic body of fiction and nonfiction includes "Casual Burning," a collection of confessional poems on loss and redemption in a world turned upside down, and "Reverb: Life-Changing Wisdom from a World of Big Thinkers." Gardner's most recent nonfiction study is "Big Bullets, Big Holes--Terror, Outrage, and Grief: Frontline Notes from America's Battlegrounds."