Abstract：
Guns and gun violence have become a widely discussed and hotly debated concern across the United States. With gun violence on the rise and mass shootings provoking powerful emotional outrage, the question often rests with what can or should be done to rectify these societal issues. This paper examines the attitudes of guns expressed through two qualitative interviews of gun owners in the United States. The paper observes many of the same outrage amongst these gun owners of Americans with seemingly little to show in the way of public policy progress for protecting citizens. Still, differences persist in what should be or can be done. The paper recommends more expansive study on this critical group of citizens involved in future United States gun safety and policy debate.
摘要：
枪支和枪支暴力已成为美国各地广泛讨论和激烈辩论的问题。随着枪支暴力的增加和大规模枪击事件激起了强烈的情感愤怒，问题通常在于可以或应该做些什么来纠正这些社会问题。本文通过对美国枪支拥有者的两次定性采访来研究枪支的态度。这篇论文观察到这些美国枪支拥有者中的许多人同样的愤怒，似乎在保护公民的公共政策进展方面几乎没有表现出来。尽管如此，在应该做或可以做的事情上仍然存在分歧。本文建议对参与未来美国枪支安全和政策辩论的这一关键公民群体进行更广泛的研究。
