Gun Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Politics, Policy, and Practice

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Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: new approaches to research on guns
	Introduction
	References
1. The rise of self-defense in gun advertising: The American Rifleman, 1918–2017
	Introduction
	A brief history of and approach to studying changes in American gun culture
	Data and methods
	Results
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
2. Semi-automatics for the people? The marketing of a new kind of man
	Introduction
	Reflections and contexts
	Arming America or gunning America?
	Upgrading police weaponry: Loss leaders for the civilian market?
	The magazine survey
	Present arms
	Words and pictures
	Conclusion
	Appendix 1: Firearms magazines used in the survey
	Notes
	References
3. ‘The gun industry wants to sell your kid an AR-15’
	Introduction
	Marketing innocence: Children and guns
	‘Refuse to be a victim’: The NRA’s outreach to women
	Conclusion: The long history of children and guns in the United States
	Notes
	References
4. Understanding the illicit gun market in Los Angeles: a review of the empirical evidence
	Introduction
	Using trace data to examine Los Angeles’ illegal gun market
	Trace analysis
	Policy response: Letter campaign
	Beyond trace data: Examining local, illicit gun markets with arresstees in LA county jails
	Methodological overview
	Findings
	Policy implications
	Concluding thoughts
	References
5. Consumers, culture, market systems and strategy: integrating marketing research and firearms studies
	Introduction
	Connecting marketing research and firearms research
	An overview of marketing research
	Existing marketing scholarship on firearms
	Marketing strategy
	Marketing strategy research relevant to firearms studies
	Consumer behavior
	Consumer behavior research relevant to firearms studies
	Consumer culture
	Consumer culture research relevant to firearms research
	Market system dynamics
	Extending market system dynamics research to firearms research
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
6. Fighting the Left and leading the Right: NRA politics and power through the 2016 elections
	Introduction
	Leader of the (C)PAC: mobilizing resources
	The mobilizing effect of threat
	Slippery slopes, culture war tyranny, and freedom fighters:
Framing the gun debate
	The past as prologue: NRA and gun rights politics in 2016 and beyond
	Notes
	References
7. Whatever happened to the ‘missing movement’? Gun control politics over two decades of change
	Introduction
	The missing movement for gun control in America
	The gun violence prevention movement
	Strategy: The gun violence prevention movement’s pragmatic turn
	Gun rights challenges to the new gun violence prevention movement
	Notes
	References
8. What if we talked about gun control differently? A framing experiment
	Introduction
	Partisanship, policy preferences, and framing
	Research design
	Results
	Discussion
	Notes
	References
9. Gun control: an Australian perspective
	Introduction
	Port Arthur 1996 and the response
	Contrast the USA
	The evidence for gun control as a means of reducing violence
	Recent Australian developments
	Police and firearms carriage
	Police firearms and public safety
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
	Cases
10. Prosthetic gods: on the semiotic and affective landscape of firearms in American politics
	Guns as tools, guns as signs
	A heuristic
	Guns as prostheses
	Conclusion
	References
11. Bullet Riddled: Living and Suffering in Killadelphia
	Introduction
	The pain and shame of being wounded
	A badge of honor
	The downward spiral
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
12. Guns, intimacy, and the limits of militarized masculinity
	Introduction
	Guns, history, male intimacy
	War, masculinity, and moral injury
	Guns as lies
	References
13. Lawfully armed citizens and police: a proposal for reducing armed encounters with agents of the state
	Introduction
	Police license to use violence and the risk of escalation in police encounters
	A proposal for technological intervention to reduce armed interaction between citizens and state agents
	The normative case for intervention: Comparison and benefits
	Conclusion
	Notes
14. ‘The worst that humanity has to offer’: on looters and law-abiding citizens in a state of emergency
	Introduction
	#HarveyLootCrew and savage man-beasts: How to manufacture a state of exception
	State outsourcing and the weaponization of self-care
	Selective memory and perpetual states of emergency
	Notes
15. Gun violence, gun control and self-defense in the governance of security of Latin America
	Introduction
	Latin America’s homicide epidemic
	Gun proliferation and violence
	Gun control and the governance of security
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
16. Firearms and violence
	Introduction
	Does the weapon matter?
	Firearms ownership and use
	Strategies of firearms control
	References
17. The effect of firearms on suicide
	Introduction
	Case-control research on the effect of exposure to
firearms on suicide
	Are suicide attempts by shooting more deadly than attempts by methods likely to be substituted if guns were not available?
	Is suicide method substitution likely to occur
	Macro-level studies of firearms levels and suicide rates
	Conclusions
	References
18. Gun policy research: personal reflections on public questions
	Philip J. Cook
	David Kopel
	Robert J. Spitzer
	References
Index