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Guns in America: A liberal gun-owning sociologist offers 5 observations to understand America’s culture of firearms

  • Written by: David Yamane, Professor of Sociology, Wake Forest University
imageAbout 86 million American adults own at least one of the estimated 400 million firearms in the U.S. today.Paul Campbell, iStock / Getty Images Plus

An Asian American and lifelong liberal from the San Francisco Bay Area, I became a first-time gun owner as a 42-year-old in 2011. I began a now 14-year journey into an unfamiliar and complex world of...

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