{"id":6806,"date":"2018-04-27T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=6806"},"modified":"2018-04-25T15:48:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T20:48:24","slug":"gun-carrying-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2018\/04\/27\/gun-carrying-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"How Gender, Family, and Race Influence Gun Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gun ownership and the decision to carry a gun in public may seem like an individual choice. However, in a recent <\/span>Vox<\/em> podcast<\/span><\/a>, sociologist <\/span>Jennifer Carlson<\/span><\/a> explains that carrying a gun in public is intertwined with cultural understandings of gender, race, and family. Carlson interviewed dozens of gun carriers and NRA instructors. She even went through the training herself, received her license to carry, and became a certified instructor to understand the culture of individuals who regularly carry guns.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Regarding race, NRA courses often neglect lessons about the impacts of racial bias in determining <\/span>who<\/span><\/i> may be a threat, for example. In terms of gender, Carlson finds that men — who carry firearms more often than women– are influenced by feelings of a loss of masculinity, socioeconomic decline, family histories, and ideas around civic responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n

“When I talked to [women] I got a very different narrative [than men] about why they are carrying guns… If we [go] back to the Second Amendment debate, it\u2019s often \u2018This is my individual right,\u2019 \u2018This is about my individual right to self-defense,\u2019 or \u2018It\u2019s about self-protection.\u2019 \u00a0And when I talked to men\u2026oftentimes it was about self-defense but it also was about family protection — family protection was a huge piece of the puzzle. This idea, if I\u2019m working a job at night, and my wife is at home and she\u2019s alone, there needs to be a firearm there so that she can be protected. And that\u2019s a really interesting move because that\u2019s [about an] absent male protector, [whereas] women were individualistic in terms of \u2018This is my right to self-defense,\u2019 \u2018My life is valuable in and of itself,\u2019 and \u2018I can have a gun to protect myself.\u2019 \u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, both men and women valued owning firearms for protection, but women framed their gun ownership in terms of self-protection, while men viewed gun ownership as a way to protect others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gun ownership and the decision to carry a gun in public may seem like an individual choice. However, in a recent Vox podcast, sociologist Jennifer Carlson explains that carrying a gun in public is intertwined with cultural understandings of gender, race, and family. Carlson interviewed dozens of gun carriers and NRA instructors. She even went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,15,55,85,14],"tags":[39116,39112,104088,39114,39124,104087,14947,250,39115,39111],"class_list":["post-6806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-culture","category-gender","category-politics","category-race","tag-crime","tag-culture","tag-firearm","tag-gender","tag-gun","tag-gun-carrying","tag-gun-ownership","tag-guns","tag-politics","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6806"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6817,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806\/revisions\/6817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}