How Intersectional Threat Shapes Views of Gun Policy: The John Wayne Solution (2024)

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Kevin Drakulich

Northeastern University

Kevin Drakulich k.drakulich@neu.edu Northeastern University, School of Criminology and Crimnal Justice, 204 Churchill Hall, 360 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, US, 02115.

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Social Problems, Volume 71, Issue 2, May 2024, Pages 531–552, https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spac017

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18 March 2022

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Guns are highly visible in the news, in politics, and in American culture more broadly. While most Americans support some gun control, a significant and vocal minority of Americans are firmly opposed. Drawing on work from the recently developing sociology of modern gun culture, we propose an intersectional threat model—wherein perceived threats to multiple privileged identities provoke a distinct response—for understanding the positions Americans take on gun policies. Using data from a 2018 national survey conducted by the American National Election Survey, we find a robust role for perceived threats along gender, race, and citizenship lines in opposition to background checks for private sales and an assault weapons ban as well as support for arming teachers. Interactions reveal multiplicative effects: that gender threats matter more when racial and immigrant threats are also felt. We discuss implications for the prospect of policy and for understanding the pro-gun alt-right movement and other potential applications of intersectional threat.

intersectionality, racial threat, doing gender, doing difference, gun control

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