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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Guns Cloud People’s Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell is making the rounds in elite cultural circles like The Atlantic and The New Yorker, hyping his new book, The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic.
I haven’t seen the book yet. It will be published next w...
“My Opinion Has Become More Complicated”
This is the fourth and, as of now, last student gun range field trip reflection essay from my fall 2026 Sociology of Guns seminar. You can find the assignment students are responding to here, and the other reflection essays here: Reflection...
“I Started to Question How This Is Not More Regulated”
This is the third of an uncertain number of student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2026 Sociology of Guns seminar. You can find the assignment students are responding to here, and the other reflection essays here: Refle...
“The smell, recoil, and weight of the firearm quickly bring you to reality”
This is the second of an uncertain number of student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2026 Sociology of Guns seminar. You can find the assignment students are responding to here and the first reflection essay here.
I am...
The New York Times is Afraid of Guns
Yesterday morning, The New York Times hit me with its list of “29 Nonfiction Books Coming This Fall.” As I expected, sociologist Harel Shapira’s Basic Pistol: Living and Dying by the Gun in America was on this rarefied list.
I’ve been foll...
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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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