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Want to understand gun owners? Watch their videos

  • Written by Connie Hassett-Walker, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Kean University

It was an ordinary day in 2011, when I found myself watching a YouTube video of a gun owner making a semi-automatic rifle discharge bullets rapidly, as if it were an automatic weapon.

My husband, a gun owner, watched firearms videos like this one. But I had never seen one. Intrigued, I sat down on the couch to absorb the imagery.

Hooking his thumb...

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