@article{ref1,
title="Gun owners, ethics, and the problem of evil: a response to the Las Vegas shooting",
journal="HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory",
year="2017",
author="Anderson, Joe",
volume="7",
number="3",
pages="39-48",
abstract="This article examines the ways in which American gun owners deploy a particular ethical system in their responses to instances of mass gun violence. I argue that anthropology is uniquely situated to provide a better understanding of how this ethical system is produced, thereby allowing us to move beyond the falsely dichotomous terms of the gun control debate. Recently returned from a period of fieldwork with a gun rights activist community in San Diego, California, I use ethnographic data to show that owning a firearm brings with it an ethical system that makes the prospect of giving up guns in the aftermath of a mass shooting even less attractive to my informants. Furthermore, this article focuses on what has been called &quot;the problem of evil&quot; by demonstrating how my informants order the world into &quot;good guys&quot; and &quot;bad guys.&quot; This opposition becomes personified into a more general notion of good versus evil, thereby placing particular people in the category of the human and others in the category of the inhuman, or monstrous.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2049-1115",
doi="10.14318/hau7.3.003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.14318/hau7.3.003"
}