A scholar of gun culture looks at the roots of Americans’ love affair with firearms – and their willingness to accept gun violence as a price of freedom.
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Research shows that school shootings can lead to years of health, educational and economic detriment for students who survive the attack.
To the famous composer, the gun serves not as a tool of self-defense, but as an instrument of self-expression and self-realization.
The relationship between guns and masculinity was once sanctioned by governments and businesses, making it entrenched and difficult to challenge.
There is a long line of well-armed American preachers – both real and fictional – in US history and culture, confirming perhaps the view that true justice cannot be enforced by institutions alone.
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Lecturer in English, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
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Associate Professor of History and Science in Society, Wesleyan University
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Professor, History, Saint Mary’s University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
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Senior Lecturer, Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Health Policy, Stanford University
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Associate Professor of Economics, The University of Texas at Austin
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Assistant Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University
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PhD candidate in economics, The University of Texas at Austin
