Guns don’t kill people…: good guys and the legitimization of gun violence
Abstract Building on literatures that examine why firearms are appealing and to whom and employing Weber’s concept of “legitimate violence”, this paper utilizes an online concealed carry forum to critically analyze how firearm proliferation is rationalized in the U.S. The analysis focuses on three s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Humanities & Social Sciences Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00673-x |