Jennifer Carlson is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. 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.

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.

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1: American Dreams, American NightmaresChapter 2: Criminal InsecuritiesChapter 3: NRA Training and the Everyday Politics of Gun CarryChapter 4: The Right to Self-Defense, the Duty to ProtectChapter 5: Policing Guns, Profiling PeopleChapter 6: Jumping the GunConclusion: We Hope for Better Things; It Shall Rise from the AshesNotesBibliographyIndex

Jennifer Carlson is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. 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.

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.

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1: American Dreams, American NightmaresChapter 2: Criminal InsecuritiesChapter 3: NRA Training and the Everyday Politics of Gun CarryChapter 4: The Right to Self-Defense, the Duty to ProtectChapter 5: Policing Guns, Profiling PeopleChapter 6: Jumping the GunConclusion: We Hope for Better Things; It Shall Rise from the AshesNotesBibliographyIndex

Jennifer Carlson is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. 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.

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.

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1: American Dreams, American NightmaresChapter 2: Criminal InsecuritiesChapter 3: NRA Training and the Everyday Politics of Gun CarryChapter 4: The Right to Self-Defense, the Duty to ProtectChapter 5: Policing Guns, Profiling PeopleChapter 6: Jumping the GunConclusion: We Hope for Better Things; It Shall Rise from the AshesNotesBibliographyIndex