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Jennifer Carlson

Jennifer Carlson is a professor of sociology at Arizona State University and the author of Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline

Latest articles by Jennifer Carlson

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Why so many American men want to be the “good guy with a gun”Why so many American men want to be the “good guy with a gun”
The Big Idea

The rise of the “citizen protector” has reshaped the gun control battle.

By Jennifer Carlson