A sociologist, Professor Yamane gave his keynote speech on how a liberal sociologist became a member of gun culture 2.0.
His main point: Guns are normal and normal people use gun.
Growing up in a liberal bubble, he only shot a gun for the first time when he was over 40 years old.
He takes an interesting sociological approach to Gun culture 2.0 which is interesting.
His studies found that Gun Culture 2.0 is more abut protection and carry than the older approach of hunting and collection and that GC 2.0 is becoming more diverse but with an interesting look at what is being owned:
Women twice are likely as men to own only a handgun
Blacks and Hispanics also 3 times as likely to own only handguns
Liberals twice as likely as conservatives to only own handguns.
He stated we as a culture need to resist efforts to stigmatize gun owners by showing the positive face of gun ownership and we need to promote the act of shooting whenever possible to introduce people to it as it is fun and challenging.
He also noted that gun culture is inclusive, after all, he describes himself as a liberal card-carrying snowflake gun owner.
His website GunCulture2point0 is worth checking out.
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