Subcultural variability and protean-identification in gun culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Sarah Jane Blithe ◽  
Jennifer L. Lanterman
Keyword(s):  
Gun Culture

Feminism and Firearms: Gun Ownership, Gun Carrying, and Women’s Empowerment

2021 ◽  
pp. 073112142110286
Author(s):  
Margaret S. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Feminist Identity ◽  
Gun Ownership ◽  
American Life ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Gun Carrying ◽  
Gun Culture ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, I use the 2018 Guns in American Life Survey (GALS) to investigate the relationship between feminist identity, gun ownership, gun carrying, and women’s empowerment. Notably, while identifying as a feminist lessens the likelihood that a woman will own a gun, of women who own handguns, feminists are more likely to carry their guns all or most of the time. Past victimization is associated with ownership and carrying, confirming genuine concern by women about their safety. Finally, findings reveal that women are more empowered by guns than are men and the relationship is moderated by age. Results are discussed in light of the current American gun culture focused on self-defense and a carry mindset that some women develop as feminist culture in action.

Visualizing a Black Future: Emory Douglas and the Black Panther Party

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-311
Author(s):  
Colette Gaiter
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Panther Party ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Gun Carrying ◽  
The Us ◽  
Hero Archetype ◽  
Gun Culture ◽  
Black Panther

In the post-Civil Rights late 1960s, the Black Panther Party (BPP) artist Emory Douglas created visual messages mirroring the US Western genre and gun culture of the time. For black people still struggling against severe oppression, Douglas’s work metaphorically armed them to defend against daily injustices. The BPP’s intrepid and carefully constructed images were compelling, but conversely, they motivated lawmakers and law enforcement officers to disrupt the organization aggressively. Decades after mainstream media vilified Douglas’s work, new generations celebrate its prescient activism and bold aesthetics. Using empathetic strategies of reflecting black communities back to themselves, Douglas visualized everyday superheroes. The gun-carrying avenger/cowboy hero archetype prevalent in Westerns did not transcend deeply embedded US racial stereotypes branding black people as inherently dangerous. Douglas helped the Panthers create visual mythology that merged fluidly with the ideas of Afrofuturism, which would develop years later as an expression of imagined liberated black futures.

Individuals and Society

Threats ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 47-120
Author(s):  
David P. Barash
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Effective Deterrent ◽  
Capital Crimes ◽  
Gun Culture ◽  
National Populism

This chapter examines threats and responses to threats as they play themselves out in human interactions. One of the significant topics here is crime and punishment—notably, how criminal statutes seek to prevent crime by threatening criminals with punishment sufficient to provide an effective deterrent. There is a long and fascinating history of such efforts, with very little success. This leads to a look at the death penalty in particular and whether it has been effective in preventing capital crimes. The chapter also assesses how people turn to religion when under threat, as well as how religions have often threatened their adherents with after-death retribution for sin, which has long influenced much human anxiety and, in some cases, compliance. Moreover, the chapter reflects on the menace of death plus threats involved in the American gun culture, and race-based and economic anxieties driving the rise of right-wing national populism.

The unacceptable (?) face of elite gun culture

2014 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-21
Author(s):  
Peter Squires
Keyword(s):  
Gun Culture
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