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
As I noted yesterday, I was a guest recently on the Texas Public Radio live call-in program “The Source.” Throughout the show, the host David Martin Davies referred to “common sense” gun laws and fortunately, before the show ended, I was able to formulate a thought in response: If we want to build some consensus, … Continue reading
I was interested to see The New Yorker covering American kids who use guns safely and lawfully, with photos by Sharif Hamza. It included a photo of the well-known Cheyenne Dalton and the less well-known Joaquin Elizondo. Of course, The New Yorker can’t discuss guns without discussing gun violence. And in this case, writer Dana … Continue reading
This week my local newspaper, the Winston-Salem Journal, ran an opinion column I wrote reflecting on the murder of a college student on the campus where I work. This reminded me that I have been meaning to create a landing page to collect all of the various posts I have written on this blog pertaining … Continue reading
This past summer I was asked to write the concluding chapter for a book on Understanding American Gun Culture. The book was the product of a conference I wanted but was unable to attend and so I was happy to get involved after the fact. The book’s editors asked me to ponder the question, what’s … Continue reading
In my previous two posts (one on The Void and one on Silhouette) I have reflected on the ways in which photographer Garrett O. Hansen’s series of works collectively called “HAIL” both represent and misrepresent gun culture. For the final works in this series, “Memorial,” Hansen uses 12 panels each to depict the actual monthly … Continue reading
The open-access, online book review site, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, has recently published a review I wrote of Juvenile Offenders and Guns: Voices Behind Gun Violence by Diane Marano. (Note: I grant that “gun violence” is a problematic category but I am not going to engage that issue here.) Although I have said … Continue reading
