I study, write, and speak about our fascinating, exasperating social world -- gun culture currently -- trying to bring more insight than animosity. Light Over Heat!
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The Wave I Didn’t See Coming
When I began studying concealed carry back in 2011, the shall issue wave of the 1990s had crested and we were living through the tail end of the surge. Wisconsin and Iowa implemented shall issue concealed carry in 2011 and Alabama (2013) an...
Illuminations #13. Laws, Waves, and Barbed Wire
Welcome to Illuminations, your monthly dose of light over heat. This month: fifty years of handgunization, a shall issue wave you can watch in under a minute, and a new novel about Japanese American soldiers in World War II. Plus, a chance...
Visualizing the Shall Issue Wave
When I teach and write about the history of concealed carry laws in the U.S., I usually put up a table I created in Microsoft Word. You can picture it: Year in one column, states in the other. It is accurate, but not very interesting visual...
Watch the Concealed Carry Revolution Unfold in 52 Seconds
Correction (10/29/26): Based on feedback I received on an earlier version of this post and graphics, I have changed the years from passage to implementation of the shall issue and permitless carry laws. This harmonizes the dating. I have al...
I’m No Malcolm Gladwell
I may be no Malcolm Gladwell, but I recently discovered we have something in common.
In his recently published book, The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic, and in my 2024 book, Gun Curious: A Liberal Professor’s Surpri...
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I have been a student & professor of sociology for nearly 40 years, currently at Wake Forest University. Recently I have devoted my attention to guns in America and try to act as a calming voice in our divisive national argument on the issue.
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