Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline, by Jennifer Carlson
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From gang- and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines of newspapers and nightly news programs. At the same time, a different kind of headline has captured public attention: a steady surge in pro-gun sentiment among Americans. A Gallup poll conducted just a month after the Newtown school shootings found that 74% of Americans oppose a ban on hand-guns, and at least 11 million people now have licenses to carry concealed weapons as part of their everyday lives. Why do so many Americans not only own guns but also carry them?In Citizen-Protectors, Jennifer Carlson offers a compelling portrait of gun carriers, shedding light on Americans' complex relationship with guns. Delving headlong into the world of gun carriers, Carlson spent time participating in firearms training classes, attending pro-gun events, and carrying a firearm herself. Through these experiences she explores the role guns play in the lives of Americans who carry them and shows how, against a backdrop of economic insecurity and social instability, gun carrying becomes a means of being a good citizen, an idea that not only pervades the NRA's public literature and statements, but its training courses as well. A much-needed counterpoint to the rhetorical battles over gun control, Citizen-Protectors is a captivating and revealing look at gun culture in America, and is a must-read for anyone with a stake in this heated debate.
Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline, by Jennifer Carlson- Amazon Sales Rank: #139991 in Books
- Brand: Carlson, Jennifer
- Published on: 2015-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.30" h x 1.00" w x 9.20" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 248 pages
Review "In this insightful, often eye-popping study, Jennifer Carlson describes how millions of Americans have come to view carrying of concealed guns in public as a civic obligation - and to regard killing in self-defense as a moral act. Whether you embrace these views or find them repugnant, the study will force you to grapple with uncomfortable questions about the role of the state vs. the individual in maintaining public order." --Kristin A. Goss, Duke University, and co-author of The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know®
"Carlson's study is the first to take gun carriers seriously as social subjects, a breakthrough in our national discussion of guns, law, and society." --Jonathan Simon, University of California, Berkeley"In this riveting and reflexive ethnography, Jennifer Carlson locks, loads, and fires a nuanced argument about how guns are used to address problems of social, economic, and physical insecurities in the United States. The findings compel the reader to reflect on the ubiquitous and embodied American culture of self-reliance, racialized criminalization, and vigilantism." --Victor Rios, University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Punished"... a timely, well-written, jargon-free, nuanced book on why millions of Americans carry guns and view themselves as models of good citizenship... Gun supporters and gun opponents will be challenged by this sophisticated work." --CHOICEAbout the Author Jennifer Carlson is an American sociologist at the University of Toronto. She is an authority on the issue of guns, and has written widely on the topic, including in the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Christian Science Monitor.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Must-read book on an issue that gets more important every day By David Yamane The liberalization of laws allowing people to get permits to carry concealed weapons in public is one of the most significant changes in American society in the past 30 years. It would surely surprise many to know that 3-4 out of every 100 adult citizens in the United States is potentially legally armed in public by virtue of these concealed carry permits. Much has been written about this phenomenon by advocates on both sides of the gun debates. Here, for the first time, we have a book length treatment of private citizens (i.e., not LEOs, security, military) who choose to legally carry guns and why they do so. Basing her study on interviews with male gun carriers (legally open and concealed) in the Detroit metro area, observations of firearms training, shooting ranges, and activist events, and her own experience of carrying a gun in pubic, Carlson begins her explanation on the ground, so to speak. She tries (and in my view succeeds) in understanding why the decision to carry a gun in public makes sense to those who do so.As a sociologist, Carlson also puts that individual decision in a broader social context. She explains the decision to carry a gun as a response to a very broad pattern of socio-economic decline, the feelings of economic and physical insecurity it produces, and related concerns about crime and police ineffectiveness. Carlson sees gun carrying as being strongly connected for men to their cultural conceptions of masculinity. The “age of decline” Carlson identifies in the book's title has affected men in particular and their role as breadwinners, so male gun carriers reassert their relevance as men by identifying themselves as “citizen-protectors” (her term, not theirs).With the term "citizen-protectors" Carlson highlights the cultural ideal of personal responsibility and connects it to a broader conception of citizenship among gun carriers. Gun carriers as citizen-protectors are morally upstanding citizens exercising their historically masculine duty to protect their families and others.Full disclosure: I read and commented on an early draft of this book and received a pre-publication copy from Oxford University Press. But I just paid for this book myself, not because I think it is perfect, but because the issue is important and getting more so all the time.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. And that’s a good thing. This book is a refreshing look at ... By Ron This isn’t the book for sharpening your gun rights versus gun control debate. And that’s a good thing.This book is a refreshing look at guns in America in a completely different and thought proven way. Her premise is the post industrialized economy has led to males from all races and socioeconomic backgrounds embracing gun ownership to reclaim their masculine role in the family and society. Instead of debating whether we have too many guns in America, the author interviews a cross section of men and women who discuss the role guns play in their lives.To the author’s credit, she dives into this gun culture by not only taking a concealed carry class, but getting her permit and open carrying a firearm also. She deserves a lot of credit for participating in the gun culture to this degree. By carrying a firearm, her research moved from just being an observer to an active member of the community she is researching. I found her comments on how it felt to be an open carry female to provide authentic insights that complemented the other gun stories.What is undeniable is that we are in a world where jobs have left the US but the people have remained behind. This has led to higher crime and higher unemployment. The author attempts, successfully, to explain the socioeconomic factors that have led to rise in crime and the attempts by some members of society to reclaim their sense of provider and protector in a post industrial economy that has disenfranchised a great many people.
3 of 10 people found the following review helpful. An Academic's view of Concealed Carry By Amazon Customer I give the author full credit for being honest and at least attempting to be open minded (not easy to do with a volatile subject). Although her anti-gun bias is painfully obvious and permeates the entire book.The author was educated at Berkeley, and sees everything through that viewpoint. She misses several elephants in the room. For example: Could the fact that LBJ's Great Society programs have largely destroyed the black family have anything to do with the rise in inner-city violence? As a true Feminist, the author doesn't even consider the possibility that having generations of children grow up without fathers in the home might cause problems.She is much too academic, and tends to jump to a lot of conclusions. Based, I think, on current trends in Political Correctness, rather than objective reality. For example, she talks about growing financial insecurity making people less trustful of government. Really? In 1930's Germany, it seemed like financial insecurity made people far too trustful of their government.Her writing is filled with high-sounding, theoretical "psycho babble." She writes like a freshman college student, trying to impress her professor by blindly parroting back all the nonsense she learned in class. The author insists on trying to define reality based on academic theories. I suspect that a month of living on the street in a bad neighborhood would teach her a lot more than every Sociology class she ever took.She attributes a crime victims split second decision to fight for their lives to a vast, sociological reform movement. While people that carry firearms usually put a lot of serious thought into the possible consequences, sometimes it's just about trying to stay alive in an increasingly dangerous world. She has some notion in her head that self-defense isn't a good enough reason to have a gun. Therefore, everyone that carries a gun must have some other, more complicated, reason for doing so.According to the author, simple self-defense just isn't a good enough explanation. People who choose to carry guns must also be "making a statement" to society. While this might be true of the small minority of people who practice "Open Carry", she lumps that group in with the far larger number of people who carry concealed. I expect that most people who carry concealed can probably count on one hand the number of other people who even know they carry a gun. How are you supposed to be "making a social statement" if you go to great lengths to make sure no one knows what you're doing?She insists on injecting a racial bias into her findings. If a white crime victim defends himself against a black criminal, then he's (guilty of) making a racial judgement? Why isn't the black guy guilty of racism for trying to rob someone who's white? Is the black victim who defends himself against a white attacker also racist?She makes gender observations on the basis that women are somehow being marginalized because a higher percentage of men carry guns. And men, of course, only carry guns because of some need to preserve their dignity, or to see themselves as still useful as protectors. The possibility that a man might carry a gun for some reason other than propping up the male ego never even seems to occur to her.She somehow manages to find either a gender or racial bias in almost every single statement that anybody makes, as well as every statistic she researches. There is a whole chapter on racial profiling in the middle of the book, which appears to contain a number of legitimate concerns that should be addressed. To me, she undermines those valid points by having "cried wolf" so often before that I couldn't take her seriously. The overwhelming majority of blacks killed by guns are shot by other blacks committing crimes. Since she doesn't mention that, she comes off as pushing an agenda rather than seeking a real solution to the problem.She will give quotes from people as proof of societal racism/sexism, but does not offer any numbers to show how widespread that illustrated attitude is. For example, she quotes several men who made sexist remarks when they saw her carrying a pistol. But was that attitude evident in 75% of the men who saw her carrying a gun? Was it only 5%, and the other 95% treated her respectfully? She doesn't say. Does she offer any evidence of how prevalent this attitude is outside of the two economically devastated cities of Detroit and Flint where she did her research? Well, no. Any data showing whether this has gotten better or worse in the last 20 years? Not a word. But she uses these isolated examples to make blanket statements about sexism in American society. Using her own methodology, maybe what she really discovered is that Sexism is caused by Poverty?Her overall thesis is that the increase in gun ownership and carrying is tied to the (largely financial) decline of American society. Personally, I don't buy the whole Poverty causes Crime theory. Lack of Morality causes criminal behavior. The whole history of this country is filled with immigrants who arrived with nothing but the clothes they were wearing, and they didn't resort to selling drugs or armed robbery. There was a lot more financial decline in 1930's America, and there wasn't the same increase in violent crime (and most of it then was fueled by Prohibition, not widespread poverty). Having said that, if we were still living in the 1950's, or Mayberry as she calls it, fewer honest citizens would feel the need to protect themselves.The author is not emotionally driven or hostile to gun owners. She is simply starting from a different set of assumptions. If you accept, for example, that Poverty causes Crime, then certain conclusions naturally follow from that. And all discussions of, or solutions to, criminal behavior are filtered through that assumption. Even if she has to ignore some inconvenient facts, and come up with convoluted theories, in order to make everything fit into her assumptions (Berkeley doesn't seem to be a big fan of teaching the Scientific Method).I obviously disagree with much of what the author says. But the book offers a fascinating look into a World View. Since this world view is predominant among both the old mainstream media and in academic circles, it is worth taking the time to understand it.
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