by Smith, Lara | Feb 15, 2021 | ammo, Biden, diversity, gun owners, gun politics, LGC Blog, Walk the Talk America
The answer is, of course, yes, although not according to a particular ammo business which this week declared if you voted for Biden, you don’t deserve to buy ammo from them. It is their right to decide to alienate 8 million new customers, but perhaps it’s...
by David Yamane | Feb 5, 2021 | COVID19, diversity, Gun Culture, gun ownership, Guns, My Experience, new gun owners
Late in 2020 an editor from the online magazine Discourse contacted me to see if I wanted to write anything about my work on American gun culture for them. The invitation provided an excellent opportunity for me to formalize some of my scattered thoughts on the Great...
by Ed Gardner | Nov 11, 2020 | diversity, LGC Blog, Members, Social Distance Learning, Social Distance Learning
November’s “Experience Panel” is timely as it focuses on the the American Veteran. Just in time for Veteran’s Day observance. We want to thank our panelists for a wide ranging discussion that goes beyond being a gun owner, where Lonny, Daniel,...
by David Yamane | Nov 11, 2020 | COVID19, Data, diversity, gun ownership, Guns, MTurk, new gun owners, Prepping
On top of the paper I wrote about last week, I have found a second scholarly publication on firearm purchasing during the COVID-19 pandemic. This one is by a group of public health scholars associated with the Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program at the...
by Ed Gardner | Nov 9, 2020 | diversity, LGC Blog, Members, Social Distance Learning, Social Distance Learning
October’s “Experience Panel” is the African American Gun Owner experience. Join us as panelists Carl, Brian, Toni and Walter have a passionate and sometimes PG-13 discussion on racism, range experience, protests and more. Stay tuned to the events...
by David Yamane | Oct 12, 2020 | Aqil Qadir, diversity, Gun Culture, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Tiffany Johnson
The topic of Module 7 of my Sociology of Guns seminar is “diversity in gun culture.” Scholars have done a woeful job of capturing this diversity — including the major axes of difference on which sociologists tend to focus such as gender, race, and sexuality, as well...
