In this week’s “Light Over Heat” video, I talk about attending a University of Wyoming School of Law Firearms Research Center and Duke University Center for Firearms Law works-in-progress workshop at Texas A&M Law School in Fort Worth.
I benefitted directly from participation in the workshop by getting feedback on my work on the evolution of concealed carry laws from some of the 14 legal scholars in attendance.
The intellectual diversity of the attendees was notable and beneficial. So, too, was the civil nature of the conversation despite people’s differences. It reinforced my belief in having civil conversations about guns across differences in face-to-face settings where no one has to worry about things getting posted to social media or otherwise broadcast.
It’s a recipe for Light Over Heat.
Gun Culture 2.0 
Most alarmingly, where is the bow tie?
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I find it exceedingly difficult to get anti-gun folks to engage in any sort of conversation at all.
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[…] I first met George in 2022 at the Duke Center for Firearms Law works-in-progress workshop in Durham. Our mutual friend — and Senior Fellow of the FRC — Ashley Hlebinsky provided an introduction and we discussed his efforts to establish a center to complement the work being done at Duke. Just a few weeks ago, I presented some of my work on concealed carry laws at this annual workshop, this time hosted by the Wyoming FRC in Fort Worth. […]
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[…] in May. I also attended two events in June at which “assault weapons” were discussed, a firearm law works-in-progress workshop sponsored by the University of Wyoming Firearm Research Center and Duke Center for Firearms Law and […]
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[…] in May. I also attended two events in June at which “assault weapons” were discussed, a firearm law works-in-progress workshop sponsored by the University of Wyoming Firearm Research Center and Duke Center for Firearms […]
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