Nineteen Minutes is not an overtly political book; people with a wide range of political views would likely feel that their perspective was represented and confirmed by the narrative. At the same time, one thing that the book does make emphatically clear is that Lewis’ argument about learning to “respect” guns is wrong. Here he believes that if Peter learns to interact with guns in a proper manner, he won’t misuse them. Of course, the reader already knows how untrue this is.