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Metzl’s “What We’ve Become” Book Club and Reading Notes
The second Light Over Heat Virtual Book Club kicked off last night with a thoughtful discussion of Jonathan Metzl’s recently published book, What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms...
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Save the Date: Gun Curious Book Launch Event at The Bookhouse
Friends, Please save the date: Saturday, June 1st from 6:00pm to 8:00pm EDT. A fabulous new independent bookstore in Winston-Salem, The Bookhouse in Reynolda Village, will be hosting a book launch...
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A Deliberative Forum on Guns in America
Last week I attended a Deliberative Forum on “Guns in America: How Should We Balance Concerns about Gun Rights and Gun Risks?” at Davidson College, a fine liberal arts institution down the road from...
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My Podcast (and Related) Appearances – Cumulative List and Links (Updated 04/24)
As noted previously, I stole the phrase “Gun Culture 2.0” from Michael Bane after I heard him talk about it on his Downrange Radio podcast (and got his ex post facto approval btw), and alot of what I...
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Without: Guns
“Without” is an award-winning podcast hosted by international bestselling author Omar El Akkad and produced by HyperObject Industries (founded by Hollywood legend Adam McKay) and Sony Music...
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Metzl’s “What We’ve Become” Reading Notes, Part 2
This post continues what I started before with my recap of the second Light Over Heat Virtual Book Club on Jonathan Metzl’s recently published book, What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of...
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The Master Narrative of Democracy-Destroying Right-Wing Gun Culture (Part 4)
This is the next edition in my repository post on what I am calling The Master Narrative of Democracy Destroying Right-Wing Gun Culture, the dominant paradigm in the interdisciplinary academic field...
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The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership
UPDATED TO ADD: I have recently posted a draft of my paper, “Articulating The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership,” on the open-access site SocArXiv. I don’t have...
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Does Gun Derangement Syndrome Afflict This Elite Scholar?
In connection with my project of articulating The Master Narrative of Democracy-Destroying Right-Wing Gun Culture in the field of gun studies, I have been reading political scientist Alexandra...
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News Reporting or Newsadvocacy? Thoughts Inspired by The Trace
It is an old idea in my field of sociology that SOCIAL CONDITIONS EXIST but SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE DEFINED. The process of taking a social condition and getting people to recognize it as a social problem...
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