This is a heads-up to those who follow my work on guns and gun culture on this blog. With the impending publication of my book, Gun Curious: A Liberal Professor’s Surprising Journey Inside American Gun Culture, in May 2024, this URL is going to become the landing page for that work. I will be migratingContinue reading “Gun Curious Blog Migration Coming Soon!”
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Understanding and Misunderstanding American Gun Culture and Violence
UPDATE: This article was published online in the open-access Journal of Lutheran Ethics back in April(!). As I discussed recently, I had the opportunity to share my views on American gun culture and gun violence at the 31st annual gathering of the Lutheran Ethicists’ Network (LEN) in January. A written version of my talk will be published in theContinue reading “Understanding and Misunderstanding American Gun Culture and Violence”
Race, BLM, Gun Ownership, and Views of January 6 Protesters (Light Over Heat #39)
A colleague, Ryan Jerome Lecount of Hamline University, pointed me to a recently published study of how race, support for Black Lives Matter, and gun ownership shape people’s views of protesters at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The results are interesting and complex and complement a few previous videos on this channel (seeContinue reading “Race, BLM, Gun Ownership, and Views of January 6 Protesters (Light Over Heat #39)”
Gun Culture 2.0 Book (Provisional) Table of Contents
As mentioned the other day, I have finally gotten the pitch for my book on Gun Culture 2.0 into the hands of some literary agents. Now the waiting game begins. In the mean time, below you will find the provisional table of contents for the book to whet your appetite. Preface. On Being a TruthContinue reading “Gun Culture 2.0 Book (Provisional) Table of Contents”
Proposal for Gun Culture 2.0 Book Going Out This Week
I stepped out of the social media fray for a few days this past weekend to commemorate the moment when my wife Sandy and I committed our lives to each other at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC in 2013. But I didn’t stop working on my book, provisionally titled Gun Culture 2.0: Inside America’sContinue reading “Proposal for Gun Culture 2.0 Book Going Out This Week”
Queers with Guns? Against the LGBT Grain
For the past 18 months, I have been co-editing, with Trent Steidley of the University of Denver, a special issue of the scholarly journal, Sociological Perspectives. The theme is “A Sociology of Firearms for the 21st Century.” A major goal we had in soliciting and selecting articles for the special issue was to expand theContinue reading “Queers with Guns? Against the LGBT Grain”
What’s Next? Understanding and Misunderstanding America’s Gun Culture (Book Chapter)
A couple of years ago, I was asked to write the concluding chapter to a book called Understanding America’s Gun Culture. My chapter would be titled, “What’s Next?” Unfortunately, chapters in edited scholarly books are where ideas go to die. As one scholar put it: “Quite simply, if you write a chapter for an editedContinue reading “What’s Next? Understanding and Misunderstanding America’s Gun Culture (Book Chapter)”
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