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.

• 1.The Social Construction of Polarization in the Discourse of Gun Rights vs. Gun Control – by Lisa Fisher 2.American Gun Culture Encounters Christian Ethics: A Clash of Narratives – by Mark Ryan3.Social Violence: The Role of Gun Culture – by Binod Kumar4.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. Renguette5.A Woman’s Place in Gun Advertisements: The American Rifleman, 1920-2019 – by David Yamane, Riley Satterwhite, and Paul Yamane6.Christians for Gun Rights? An Investigation of the Discrepancy between the Gun Rights View and Christian Faith – by Matt Stolick 7.The American Gun Culture: Potential Impact on K-12 School Violence – by Gordon Arthur Crews and Garrison Allen Crews8.A Conversation on Gun Culture Research Trends – by Jim D. Taylor, Craig Hovey, and Lisa Fisher9.Understanding and Misunderstanding America’s Gun Culture – by David Yamane

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.

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.

• 1.The Social Construction of Polarization in the Discourse of Gun Rights vs. Gun Control – by Lisa Fisher 2.American Gun Culture Encounters Christian Ethics: A Clash of Narratives – by Mark Ryan3.Social Violence: The Role of Gun Culture – by Binod Kumar4.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. Renguette5.A Woman’s Place in Gun Advertisements: The American Rifleman, 1920-2019 – by David Yamane, Riley Satterwhite, and Paul Yamane6.Christians for Gun Rights? An Investigation of the Discrepancy between the Gun Rights View and Christian Faith – by Matt Stolick 7.The American Gun Culture: Potential Impact on K-12 School Violence – by Gordon Arthur Crews and Garrison Allen Crews8.A Conversation on Gun Culture Research Trends – by Jim D. Taylor, Craig Hovey, and Lisa Fisher9.Understanding and Misunderstanding America’s Gun Culture – by David Yamane

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.

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.

• 1.The Social Construction of Polarization in the Discourse of Gun Rights vs. Gun Control – by Lisa Fisher 2.American Gun Culture Encounters Christian Ethics: A Clash of Narratives – by Mark Ryan3.Social Violence: The Role of Gun Culture – by Binod Kumar4.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. Renguette5.A Woman’s Place in Gun Advertisements: The American Rifleman, 1920-2019 – by David Yamane, Riley Satterwhite, and Paul Yamane6.Christians for Gun Rights? An Investigation of the Discrepancy between the Gun Rights View and Christian Faith – by Matt Stolick 7.The American Gun Culture: Potential Impact on K-12 School Violence – by Gordon Arthur Crews and Garrison Allen Crews8.A Conversation on Gun Culture Research Trends – by Jim D. Taylor, Craig Hovey, and Lisa Fisher9.Understanding and Misunderstanding America’s Gun Culture – by David Yamane

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.