I have presented my work dozens of times in the 30 years since my first academic conference presentation in 1992. I had never missed a scheduled presentation until this year, when I could not attend a session (organized by Nicholas Buttrick and including Tara Warner and Emmy Betz) at the annual meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science due to my father’s death.
My topic was “Gun Culture 2.0 and the Changing Face of Gun Owners in America.” What I was going to talk about was not new to me, but I was excited to bring my ideas about guns and gun culture to a new audience.
If you are new to my work, if you want a refresher, or ICYMI, you can get an idea of my approach to this topic both in writing and video.
Two YouTube videos from my “Light Over Heat” channel follow. The first is a 15 minute presentation I made to the Outdoor Writers Association of American in October 2021, and the second is the third Light Over Heat video I posted in January 2022. A couple of links to my writing on the issue are included as well.
I have not written anything specifically on gun owner diversity, but the idea of a changing face of gun owners appears in various places like:
—>“Gun Culture 2.0 and the Great Gun-Buying Spree of 2020,” Discourse, 2 February 2021.
—>My talk to the Lutheran Ethicists’ Network: a preprint of the paper online as a free download at SocArxiv.
There are also some very academic works that include these ideas but I will spare blog readers of those.
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