A gun shop in Dunedin, Florida. Photo by Martin Roemers/Panos Pictures The US today has extraordinary levels of gun ownership. But to see this as a venerable tradition is to misread history Megan Kang is a PhD candidate in sociology at Princeton University in New Jersey, and a research affiliate at the University of Chicago Crime Lab and at Princeton’s Violence and Inequality Project. Her research aims to make sense of gun availability and social policy through ethnography and mixed methods. In 1970, amid a national confrontation with the United States’ gun culture following the assassinations of Robert F Kennedy … Continue reading Why America fell for guns