This is the sixth of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2023 Sociology of Guns seminar (see Reflection #1, Reflection #2, Reflection #3, Reflection #4, and Reflection #5). The assignment to which students are responding can be found here. I am grateful to these students for their willingness to haveContinue reading ““The Experience Caused Me to Feel More Conflicted and Confused About Guns” (Fall 2023 Student Range Visit Reflection #6)”
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“The Experience at the Range Was Far More Cathartic Than I Had Initially Imagined” (Fall 2023 Student Range Visit Reflection #5)
This is the fifth of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2023 Sociology of Guns seminar (see Reflection #1, Reflection #2, Reflection #3, and Reflection #4). The assignment to which students are responding can be found here. I am grateful to these students for their willingness to have their thoughtsContinue reading ““The Experience at the Range Was Far More Cathartic Than I Had Initially Imagined” (Fall 2023 Student Range Visit Reflection #5)”
“I Personally Sit in a Weird Place When It Comes to Guns” (Fall 2023 Student Range Visit Reflection #4)
This is the fourth of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2023 Sociology of Guns seminar (see Reflection #1, Reflection #2, and Reflection #3). The assignment to which students are responding can be found here. I am grateful to these students for their willingness to have their thoughts shared publicly.Continue reading ““I Personally Sit in a Weird Place When It Comes to Guns” (Fall 2023 Student Range Visit Reflection #4)”
“I Wasn’t Aware That Most of My Classmates Hadn’t Interacted with Firearms Before” (Fall 2023 Student Range Visit Reflection #3)
This is the third of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2023 Sociology of Guns seminar (see Reflection #1 and Reflection #2). The assignment to which students are responding can be found here. I am grateful to these students for their willingness to have their thoughts shared publicly. By GabiContinue reading ““I Wasn’t Aware That Most of My Classmates Hadn’t Interacted with Firearms Before” (Fall 2023 Student Range Visit Reflection #3)”
Still More on Why Gun Ownership Rates Are Underestimated in Surveys
I have written previously about how survey research underestimates the rate of gun ownership in the United States. The main sources of “false negatives” (people who own guns but tell survey researchers they do not) are (1) people who don’t want outsiders to know they have guns, (2) people who want to avoid the stigmaContinue reading “Still More on Why Gun Ownership Rates Are Underestimated in Surveys”
What I Would Like Clinical Psychologists to Know About Gun Owners (Light Over Heat #53)
A colleague of mine, David Zehrung, is a psychologist practicing in Pennsylvania. He will be speaking this month to the Pennsylvania Psychological Association about firearms. He asked me to provide a 3-minute overview of what I’d like psychologists to know about gun owners. I put together a 5-minute version for “Light Over Heat” this week.
Something Other Than Objective Risk Motivates Defensive Gun Ownership (Light Over Heat #46)
This video concludes my ongoing series systematizing the dominant academic approach to understanding Gun Culture 2.0, what I call “The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership.” Here I engage the 5th of the model’s 5 points: That something other than objective risk motivates defensive gun ownership. From a sociological perspective, thatContinue reading “Something Other Than Objective Risk Motivates Defensive Gun Ownership (Light Over Heat #46)”
Racism Against the AAPI Community and Gun Ownership
As a gunologist, not to mention an Asian-American gun owner, a recent episode of the Red, Blue & Brady podcast on racism against the AAPI community and gun ownership caught my attention. The episode focused on a recently published study by a group of public health scholars who fielded a national survey of 916 AsianContinue reading “Racism Against the AAPI Community and Gun Ownership”
The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership (Light Over Heat #41)
In mid-November, I am presenting at a workshop about firearms and self-defense at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. I am using the occasion to write out something that has been in my mind for some time: Systematizing the dominant academic approach to understanding defensive gun ownership (Gun Culture 2.0). In this and the nextContinue reading “The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership (Light Over Heat #41)”
New Data on New Gun Owners and Gun Policy Preferences
Like many, I have been touting the changing face of gun owners, especially in connection with the great gun buying spree of 2020+. I have discussed this in Discourse Magazine in February 2021, at the Outdoor Writers Association of American annual conference in October 2021, in Episode 3 of my “Light Over Heat” video seriesContinue reading “New Data on New Gun Owners and Gun Policy Preferences”
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