Author Event: Thomas Gabor and Violet Lemay

Name: Author Event: Thomas Gabor and Violet Lemay
Start: 2025-04-16T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 415 Brooks Street, Wake Forest, NC, United States, North Carolina 27587

Schedule

Wed, 16 Apr, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

415 Brooks Street, Wake Forest, NC, United States, North Carolina 27587 | Wake Forest, NC

Page 158 Books is happy to welcome author Thomas Gabor and illustrator Violet Lemay to the store to discuss their book, Gun Violence 101.
Did you know that gun violence is the #1 cause of death among America’s children and teens and that guns in the home are far more likely to be used in killing family members than intruders? Gun Violence 101, a unique illustrated book using original graphics and artwork, presents many shocking facts about gun violence and gun laws in America. Criminologist Thomas Gabor, coauthor of the acclaimed book American Carnage, joins forces with award-winning author and illustrator Violet Lemay in showing that many of America’s gun laws harm rather than protect us. Many Americans have been influenced by the gun lobby’s harmful campaigns designed to convince the public that guns in the home, gun carrying, and permissive laws will make the country safer. Instead, such policies have produced record numbers of gun deaths and mass shootings around the country. Gabor and Lemay present solutions to gun violence that have been shown to make people and communities safer.
Other Surprising Facts About Gun Violence:
Americans own 50 times more military-style weapons like the AR-15 today than in the 1990s.
Fatal road rage shootings have more than doubled in the last few years as more people carry guns.
6% of Americans own two-thirds of all the nation’s guns.
Thomas Gabor, formerly Professor of Criminology at Ottawa University, is an international gun policy consultant. An author of 200 works, he has testified in front of Parliamentary committees, served as an advisor to the United Nations, and advised governmental agencies. He is author of Confronting Gun Violence in America and ENOUGH!.
Violet Lemay began her career as an editorial illustrator for clients including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Psychology Today. For the past decade, she's been involved in book publishing. Lemay has illustrated nearly fifty books, mostly for children, eight of which she wrote. Her 2023 picture book biography of a student victim of the Uvalde mass shooting, Alithia Ramirez Was an Artist, won nine awards including the Hoffer grand prize. Violet’s books have been translated into many languages. Her editorial and book illustrations have won many awards and are featured as part of the permanent collection of the Hyundai Museum of Kids’ Books and Art in Seoul, Korea. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Violet moved to New Zealand in 2015 where she now resides. She has also lived in China and Malaysia.