Table of Contents
The Social Construction of Polarization in the Discourse of Gun
Rights vs. Gun Control – by Lisa Fisher
American Gun Culture Encounters Christian Ethics: A Clash of
Narratives – by Mark Ryan
Social Violence: The Role of Gun Culture – by Binod Kumar
Gender Differences in Youth Gun Culture: A Discussion of
Caribbean Findings using the lens of U.S. Gun Culture – by Carolyn
Gentle-Genitty, Jangmin Kim, and Corinne C. Renguette
A Woman’s Place in Gun Advertisements: The American Rifleman,
1920-2019 – by David Yamane, Riley Satterwhite, and Paul
Yamane
Christians for Gun Rights? An Investigation of the Discrepancy
between the Gun Rights View and Christian Faith – by Matt
Stolick
The American Gun Culture: Potential Impact on K-12 School
Violence – by Gordon Arthur Crews and Garrison Allen Crews
A Conversation on Gun Culture Research Trends – by Jim D.
Taylor, Craig Hovey, and Lisa Fisher
Understanding and Misunderstanding America’s Gun Culture – by
David Yamane
About the Author
Lisa Fisher is consulting director at a Washington, DC, IT and
management consulting firm.
Craig Hovey is professor of religion at Ashland University and
is executive director of the Ashland Center for Nonviolence.
Reviews
Guns, guns, and more guns: Americans love them and hate them,
worship them and fear them, openly carry them and conceal them, use
them for good and use them for evil. In this unique collection of
essays, Fisher and Hovey help people to better understand them.
Scholars from various disciplines share empirical research
depicting the traditional, symbolic, practical, and impractical
reasons that guns always have been and probably always will be an
integral part of American culture. A must read for anyone
interested in Americans’ obsession with guns.
*William E. Thompson, Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice,
Texas A&M University–Commerce*
