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Author | : Lisa Fisher |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2021-08-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 179362514X |
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Understanding America's Gun Culture focuses on building understanding of some of the issues associated with U.S. gun culture and the contemporary debate about the availability and use of guns. This edited volume is unique in that it draws on a wide variety of disciplines and presents perspectives on both sides of the debate. Contributors hail from the academic disciplines of history, social work, criminal justice, sociology, religion, and theological ethics as well as policy agencies. Some chapters examine the issues social-psychologically to help readers better understand dynamics within the debate. Others pose important ethical and philosophical questions about gun culture. Still others address practical policy solutions for enhancing gun safety and minimizing gun violence, even bringing in international perspectives. This second edition includes literature published in the last two years and two new chapters, one focusing on gender within gun culture and another that features a conversation between the editors and an ethnographic researcher with broad expertise in gun culture and research and policy trends. Together, the chapters create a thought-provoking compilation that offers insightful findings, considers theoretical and practical implications, and invites further exploration of the topic.
Author | : Lisa Fisher |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-05-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781793625151 |
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Drawing on a wide variety of disciplines and presenting perspectives on both sides of the gun debate, Understanding America's Gun Culture offers a fresh look at the issues surrounding guns in the U.S. today. The book moves past polarization to invite thoughtful, nuanced and in...
Author | : Pamela Haag |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465048951 |
Download The Gunning of America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"An acclaimed historian explodes the myth about the 'special relationship' between Americans and their guns, revealing that savvy 19th century businessmen--not gun lovers--created American gun culture"--
Author | : Joan Burbick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781595582041 |
Download Gun Show Nation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Cultural historian, critic and gun owner Joan Burbick examines the lethal politics of gun ownership, answering that perennial question about American culture: why are Americans so obsessed with guns? Looking at the nation from the floor of a gun show, Burbick uncovers a powerful conservative ideology that attempts to place gun ownership at the centre of US democracy. Her analysis takes us from the history of the NRA, through the gun lobby's engagement with US politics, to the movement's contemporary hostility to the United Nations.
Author | : David Yamane |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2024-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476653550 |
Download Gun Curious Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
More than ever, it feels like cultural and political divisions over firearms are tearing the United States apart. Guns are an undeniable and contradictory presence in America, both widely owned and controversial. This book does something remarkable: it promotes insight over animosity in understanding the complex reality of guns in America. It challenges firearms skeptics, entertains enthusiasts, and informs the uncommitted by taking readers on a surprising journey inside gun culture. A lifelong liberal from the San Francisco Bay Area, David Yamane became a new gun owner as a 42-year-old and embarked on an immersive twelve-year study of American gun culture. Weaving together his personal experiences and sociological observations to explain why guns make sense to those who own them, he illuminates defensive gun ownership, the risk of negative outcomes associated with firearms, and what responsible gun ownership looks like in the twenty-first century. This book lowers the heat on America's inflamed arguments about firearms and models the civil discussions we desperately need.
Author | : Brunilda Saal |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2021-07-24 |
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ISBN | : |
Download More Gun Means Less Crime? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Some people believe that if people are allowed to use guns, there will be less crime, but others think differently. In this book, we will discuss the gun violence issues in America and the connection between violence and guns. In this book we will answer these questions: - Is America a more violent country than others? - What are the real factors influencing the rise and fall of American violence? - Do guns make us more violent? - Do we know how to identify and treat violent individuals?
Author | : Clayton E. Cramer |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2018-02-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Lock, Stock, and Barrel Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This provocative book debunks the myth that American gun culture was intentionally created by gun makers and demonstrates that gun ownership and use have been a core part of American society since our colonial origins. Revisionist historians argue that American gun culture and manufacturing are relatively recent developments. They further claim that widespread gun violence was largely absent from early American history because guns of all types, and especially handguns, were rare before 1848. According to these revisionists, American gun culture was the creation of the first mass production gun manufacturers, who used clever marketing to sell guns to people who neither wanted nor needed them. However, as proven in this first scholarly history of "gun culture" in early America, gun ownership and use have in fact been central to American society from its very beginnings. Lock, Stock, and Barrel: The Origins of American Gun Culture shows that gunsmithing and gun manufacturing were important parts of the economies of the colonies and the early republic and explains how the American gun industry helped to create our modern world of precision mass production and high wages for workers.
Author | : Frank N. Egerton |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2018-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1546241590 |
Download Guncrazy America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The conclusion of this professor-historian (emeritus) is that our gun culture had its uses in establishing American civilization, as slavery did. But we came to recognize (after a bloody civil war) that slavery was a gigantic mistake, and now I think it’s time to realize that our gun culture was a similarly gigantic mistake, though of a different kind. And we need to do what we can to minimize its horrible impacts and move on to a more positive development of a humane civilization.
Author | : William Briggs |
Publisher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2017-05-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0826358144 |
Download How America Got Its Guns Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In the United States more than thirty thousand deaths each year can be attributed to firearms. This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned. The author’s thorough and objective account shows the complexities of the issue, which are so often reduced to bumper-sticker slogans, and suggests ways in which gun violence in this country can be reduced. Briggs profiles not only protagonists in the national gun debate but also ordinary people, showing the ways guns have become part of the lives of many Americans. Among them are gays and lesbians, women, competitive trapshooters, people in the gun-rights and gun-control trenches, the NRA’s first female president, and the most successful gunsmith in American history. Balanced and painstakingly unbiased, Briggs’s account provides the background needed to follow gun politics in America and to understand the gun culture in which we are likely to live for the foreseeable future.
Author | : Jonathan M. Metzl |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2019-03-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1541644964 |
Download Dying of Whiteness Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A physician's "provocative" (Boston Globe) and "timely" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times Book Review) account of how right-wing backlash policies have deadly consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help. In election after election, conservative white Americans have embraced politicians who pledge to make their lives great again. But as physician Jonathan M. Metzl shows in Dying of Whiteness, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death. Interviewing a range of everyday Americans, Metzl examines how racial resentment has fueled progun laws in Missouri, resistance to the Affordable Care Act in Tennessee, and cuts to schools and social services in Kansas. He shows these policies' costs: increasing deaths by gun suicide, falling life expectancies, and rising dropout rates. Now updated with a new afterword, Dying of Whiteness demonstrates how much white America would benefit by emphasizing cooperation rather than chasing false promises of supremacy. Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award