@article{ref1,
title="Guns don't kill people…: good guys and the legitimization of gun violence",
journal="Humanities and social sciences communications",
year="2020",
author="Stroud, Angela",
volume="7",
number="1",
pages="1-7",
abstract="Building on literatures that examine why firearms are appealing and to whom and employing Weber's concept of &quot;legitimate violence&quot;, this paper utilizes an online concealed carry forum to critically analyze how firearm proliferation is rationalized in the U.S. The analysis focuses on three specific examples of violence--the Parkland, Florida, and Philando Castile shootings, and stories of children who find guns and shoot themselves and/or others. This work is a critical examination of the social construction of &quot;legitimate violence&quot; that deconstructs the discourses embedded in the &quot;pro-gun&quot; notion that the answer to gun violence is more guns.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2662-9992",
doi="10.1057/s41599-020-00673-x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00673-x"
}