I have written about this issue previously, but the recent court ruling in Connecticut allowing a lawsuit against Remington blaming their advertising for the Sandy Hook massacre to go forward forces me to revisit it. As dumb as many people thought Bushmaster’s “man card” ad was, if it is supposed to be responsible for mass … Continue reading
The past two weeks in my Sociology of Guns seminar we have been talking about the use of lethal force, one week focused on police and one week on non-sworn civilians. Given my background, I cannot speak to either of these issues other than through scholarly studies. So I was pleased to bring in someone … Continue reading
One of the books I am using in class this semester was published in 2014, which in the academic world is fairly recent. But in the world of concealed carry laws, it is ancient. The authors of my text observed that five states at the time did not require a permit to legally carry a … Continue reading
Yesterday, I met The American Dream in East Texas. (Not Dusty Rhodes, RIP). I met a man in East Texas during a focus group interview on safety and security in houses of worship. This story is about the man, not safety and security, not guns or gun culture. But it is a story I very … Continue reading
Judging from what I saw at the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s 2019 Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show, concealed carry products for women continue to be a hot retail category. I discussed this in my series of posts from the 2016 United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) Concealed Carry Expo and in the book … Continue reading
Though I am excited to have launched a new blog recently, GUN CURIOUS, I have not forgotten about this blog and my unfinished series of posts on the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show last month. The first gun I owned that I shot regularly was my CZ Redhead 12 … Continue reading
I have previously observed that the National Opinion Research Center’s General Social Survey (GSS) underestimates the rate of gun ownership in the United States. This is a product both of non-response (people who do not answer the “do you own a gun question”) and denial (false negatives) among people who are actually gun owners. Iowa … Continue reading
