TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Guns and butter
JO  - Cultural studies <=> critical methodologies
A1  - Finley, Susan
SP  - 88
EP  - 89
VL  - 21
IS  - 1
N2  - The buzz about violence in schools has lightened during the COVID-19 pandemic, but without a plan or resolution to the problems of gun availability, pervasive gun culture and other issues of violence in U.S. schools and society. In recent, pre-COVID conversation with preservice teachers and school administrators (separate conversations), I was surprised by the support that was expressed for a highly-policed school environment that includes armed teachers, principals and other school personnel. At an intellectual level, I cannot grasp how increased policing in schools can promote any result other than the possibilities of increased racism and further inculcation of a police-state mentality in schools and society. As I mulled the issues around gun violence in particular, I realized that my objections go beyond a philosophy or an intellectual point of view, but are instead rooted in visceral, long-held feelings based in experience. In this autoethnographic essay, I recount my personal experiences in an attempt to illustrate through personal experience the folly of wide-spread gun ownership and to underscore the canard that guns can protect us in our homes and schools.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1532-7086
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532708620939282
ID  - ref1
ER  -