Tony Grist
Author’s Note: I’m not bringing back this blog (find me on Substack), but I recently published a short essay that is too important not to mention.
I shot a gun for the first time in January 2011. On that day, I began a personal and sociological journey into America’s gun culture that culminated in the June 2024 publication of my book, Gun Curious: A Liberal Professor’s Surprising Journey Inside America’s Gun Culture.
Trying to fit more than a decade’s observations in a single book was difficult. Harder still was to write a TL:DR for those for whom a book is too many words.
But I recently published a 900-word essay in The Conversation: “Guns in America: A liberal gun-owning sociologist offers 5 observations to understand America’s culture of firearms.”
Please have a look and share the essay using the sharing links on the article page. The Conversation (and my employer) tracks these metrics.
And let me know what you think!
Read the full article here
