Craig Hovey is associate professor of religion at Ashland University and executive director of the Ashland Center for Nonviolence.Lisa Fisher worked in higher education for more than a decade and is now consulting director for a Washington, DC IT firm.

• Introduction, Craig Hovey and Lisa Fisher1. The Social Construction of Polarization in the Discourse of Gun Rights vs. Gun Control, Lisa Fisher 2. American Gun Culture Encounters Christian Ethics: A Clash of Narratives, Mark Ryan3. Social Violence: The Role of Gun Culture, Binod Kumar4. Gender Differences in Youth Gun Culture: A Discussion of Caribbean Findings using the lens of U.S. Gun Culture, Carolyn Gentle-Genitty, Jangmin Kim, and Corinne C. Renguette5. Brothers in Arms?: Merkel’s Foreign Policy and the Americanization of German Gun Culture, Rachel E. Boaz 6. Christians for Gun Rights? An Investigation of the Discrepancy between the Gun Rights View and Christian Faith, Matt Stolick 7. The American Gun Culture: Potential Impact on K–12 School Violence, Gordon Arthur Crews and Garrison Allen Crews8. What’s Next? Understanding and Misunderstanding America’s Gun Culture, David Yamane

This ambitiously titled work, published in the context of high-profile mass shootings, contains eight chapters. . . Valuable contributions focus on the rhetoric surrounding gun ownership, the gun culture of law-abiding citizens, and a study on the profiles of mass shooters in school settings. At first glance, the book suffers from having two chapters on the same subject: reconciling Christian ethics and US gun ownership. However, the Christian ethics chapter, by Matt Stolick, is the standout chapter of the book. He writes an excellent overview of gun laws in relation to the gun industry, though the chapter would have been better placed toward the front of the book. Chapters on social violence and gender differences in Caribbean and German gun culture are interesting. . . Overall, this book contributes to the literature on gun culture.Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

Craig Hovey is associate professor of religion at Ashland University and executive director of the Ashland Center for Nonviolence.Lisa Fisher worked in higher education for more than a decade and is now consulting director for a Washington, DC IT firm.

• Introduction, Craig Hovey and Lisa Fisher1. The Social Construction of Polarization in the Discourse of Gun Rights vs. Gun Control, Lisa Fisher 2. American Gun Culture Encounters Christian Ethics: A Clash of Narratives, Mark Ryan3. Social Violence: The Role of Gun Culture, Binod Kumar4. Gender Differences in Youth Gun Culture: A Discussion of Caribbean Findings using the lens of U.S. Gun Culture, Carolyn Gentle-Genitty, Jangmin Kim, and Corinne C. Renguette5. Brothers in Arms?: Merkel’s Foreign Policy and the Americanization of German Gun Culture, Rachel E. Boaz 6. Christians for Gun Rights? An Investigation of the Discrepancy between the Gun Rights View and Christian Faith, Matt Stolick 7. The American Gun Culture: Potential Impact on K–12 School Violence, Gordon Arthur Crews and Garrison Allen Crews8. What’s Next? Understanding and Misunderstanding America’s Gun Culture, David Yamane

This ambitiously titled work, published in the context of high-profile mass shootings, contains eight chapters. . . Valuable contributions focus on the rhetoric surrounding gun ownership, the gun culture of law-abiding citizens, and a study on the profiles of mass shooters in school settings. At first glance, the book suffers from having two chapters on the same subject: reconciling Christian ethics and US gun ownership. However, the Christian ethics chapter, by Matt Stolick, is the standout chapter of the book. He writes an excellent overview of gun laws in relation to the gun industry, though the chapter would have been better placed toward the front of the book. Chapters on social violence and gender differences in Caribbean and German gun culture are interesting. . . Overall, this book contributes to the literature on gun culture.Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

Craig Hovey is associate professor of religion at Ashland University and executive director of the Ashland Center for Nonviolence.Lisa Fisher worked in higher education for more than a decade and is now consulting director for a Washington, DC IT firm.

• Introduction, Craig Hovey and Lisa Fisher1. The Social Construction of Polarization in the Discourse of Gun Rights vs. Gun Control, Lisa Fisher 2. American Gun Culture Encounters Christian Ethics: A Clash of Narratives, Mark Ryan3. Social Violence: The Role of Gun Culture, Binod Kumar4. Gender Differences in Youth Gun Culture: A Discussion of Caribbean Findings using the lens of U.S. Gun Culture, Carolyn Gentle-Genitty, Jangmin Kim, and Corinne C. Renguette5. Brothers in Arms?: Merkel’s Foreign Policy and the Americanization of German Gun Culture, Rachel E. Boaz 6. Christians for Gun Rights? An Investigation of the Discrepancy between the Gun Rights View and Christian Faith, Matt Stolick 7. The American Gun Culture: Potential Impact on K–12 School Violence, Gordon Arthur Crews and Garrison Allen Crews8. What’s Next? Understanding and Misunderstanding America’s Gun Culture, David Yamane

This ambitiously titled work, published in the context of high-profile mass shootings, contains eight chapters. . . Valuable contributions focus on the rhetoric surrounding gun ownership, the gun culture of law-abiding citizens, and a study on the profiles of mass shooters in school settings. At first glance, the book suffers from having two chapters on the same subject: reconciling Christian ethics and US gun ownership. However, the Christian ethics chapter, by Matt Stolick, is the standout chapter of the book. He writes an excellent overview of gun laws in relation to the gun industry, though the chapter would have been better placed toward the front of the book. Chapters on social violence and gender differences in Caribbean and German gun culture are interesting. . . Overall, this book contributes to the literature on gun culture.Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.