Gun Curious

A Liberal Professor's Surprising Journey Inside America's Gun Culture

By: David Yamane

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Paperback | 1 June 2024

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214 Pages

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More than ever, it feels like cultural and political divisions over firearms are tearing the United States apart. Guns are an undeniable and contradictory presence in America, both widely owned and controversial. This book does something remarkable: it promotes insight over animosity in understanding the complex reality of guns in America. It challenges firearms skeptics, entertains enthusiasts, and informs the uncommitted by taking readers on a surprising journey inside gun culture.

A lifelong liberal from the San Francisco Bay Area, David Yamane became a new gun owner as a 42-year-old and embarked on an immersive twelve-year study of American gun culture. Weaving together his personal experiences and sociological observations to explain why guns make sense to those who own them, he illuminates defensive gun ownership, the risk of negative outcomes associated with firearms, and what responsible gun ownership looks like in the twenty-first century. This book lowers the heat on America's inflamed arguments about firearms and models the civil discussions we desperately need.

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"Smoothly readable...an intelligent defense of gun ownership."-Kirkus Reviews; "unique...a first-person journey through gun ownership. ... [Yamane] writes about his experiences in the hopes of telling the story of American gun culture from the inside. ...fascinating... Yamane's own reservations and insights offer an intriguing window into gun culture, and in that sense the book is profoundly successful. ...recommended"-Choice

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