Understanding Gun Culture

Hugh Taft-Morales

Leader, Philadelphia Ethical Society

As a society with more weapons than people, the United States clearly has a “gun culture.” Does that explain the plague of mass shootings, crime-related killings, accidents, and suicides by bullet? Causes proffered for this epidemic include mental illness, toxic masculinity, economic desperation, and profiteering by weapon manufacturers, as well as new stressors created by the pandemic. Hugh describes his efforts to understand this phenomenon from the outside: a necessary step if we are to transform a culture of guns into a culture of ethics.

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