I am up early this Saturday morning trying to get ahead on my “Ten Essential Observations on Guns in America” free webinar preparation. Registration for the webinar is still open, by the way, and you have access to recordings of all past and future sessions if you register.

Webinar Module 6 (of 7 total) on “Gun Violence and Prevention Strategies” is not until May 13th, but I will be spending the week of May 6th with family, so I need to work ahead.

As I have said many times before, I study American gun culture not gun violence or gun control, but these are important parts of the reality of guns in America that I need to cover. So I have been revisiting my previous blog posts on the topic to orient myself.

One relevant post I wrote back in March 2015 concerned “Kristin Goss on The (No Longer) Missing Movement for Gun Control in America?” Goss is a political scientist who studied the gun control movement in the wake of the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. In 2006, she published a book, Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America (Amazon affiliate link to purchase).

I won’t go into the details of Goss’s argument here — watch Module 6 of my webinar! — but I just want to note that in 2015 I wrote on this blog that recent history gave Goss:

“plenty of material for a follow-up volume on The No Longer Missing Movement for Gun Control in America.“

Although Goss has yet to write that book, in 2018 she did publish a chapter in a book on Gun Studies (Amazon affiliate link) called “Whatever happened to the ‘missing movement’? Gun control politics over two decades of change.”

In it, she systematically covers how the gun control movement evolved in ways that overcame its previous liabilities, including rebranding itself as the “gun violence prevention” or “gun safety” movement.

OK, I have to get back to preparing for webinar Module 6 now. Have a great weekend everyone!