Before I sneak off to SHOT Show next week, I will be starting the spring semester at Wake Forest University. As I have for the past four academic years, I will be teaching my Sociology of Guns seminar. A copy of this year’s syllabus is available HERE. One modification I made in Version 5.0 was … Continue reading
I have known for a couple of months but did not want to say anything until it was officially announced: I am giving the lunch presentation this year at the National Firearms Law Seminar in Indianapolis, April 26th. I will be using my own experience of becoming an armed American to shed light on the … Continue reading
Of my Top 10 most viewed posts in 2018, only 2 were published in 2018. So what are my Top 10 most viewed posts of 2018 that were actually published in 2018? I list them below. 1. New York Times Steps to Buy a Gun, Homicide, and Suicide Cross-Nationally 2. Yes, 18 Year-Olds Can Own … Continue reading
2018 was another good year for this blog. I posted 127 times, had over 100,000 visitors and nearly 200,000 page views. That represents an increase of 48% in visitors and 30% in page views over 2017, and is a far cry from the 6,000 visitors and 11,000 views I had in my first full year … Continue reading
I like data. I am a social scientist after all. I am also very impressed by some of the new developments in data visualization which did not exist when I was being trained. The gun violence newsadvocacy organization The Trace recently used data from the Gun Violence Archive to create an interesting “atlas” of American … Continue reading
UPDATE: A Facebook follower commented that this Charleston Rifle Club is a rifle club in name only. There is no shooting facility on the site. It is essentially a social club. Although this doesn’t make its rejection of an African American member any more palatable to me, it does mean this event doesn’t tell us … Continue reading
How did I miss the publication of this book? I spend a good part of every day wandering around American gun culture, locally and nationally through social media. And it took someone from the outside to tell me about it. That is unfortunate. Let it Bang: A Young Black Man’s Reluctant Odyssey into Guns is … Continue reading
