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Future Hindsight

America’s Half a Billion Guns: Jonathan Metzl

APR 25, 202451 MIN
Future Hindsight

America’s Half a Billion Guns: Jonathan Metzl

APR 25, 202451 MIN

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Jonathan M. Metzl is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and the Director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University. His most recent book is What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms. We discuss lax gun laws and gun ownership as an identity.

 

The public health narrative is about how guns pose a health risk, a threat to mortality to our bodies. Those who vote based on guns see guns as symbols of power or protection. In fact, many people in the South own guns because they’re afraid of government tyranny. Unfortunately, gun laws have become more and more lax in a country that has almost 500 million civilian-owned firearms. Metzl shares that “We've had a dramatic erosion in the ability of states and towns and the country itself to limit who can own and carry a firearm.”     

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Credits: 

Host: Mila Atmos 

Guests: Jonathan Metzl

Executive Producer: Mila Atmos

Producer: Zack Travis