This is a video (28 minutes long) of my recent lunchtime keynote address at the National Firearms Law Seminar in Dallas.

I begin by telling a bit about the struggle to get my book, Gun Curious: A Liberal Professor’s Surprising Journey Inside America’s Gun Culture, published. I then highlight the five general lessons I learned in the process of wandering around American gun culture for 12 years as I became and matured as a gun owner.

Those five lessons are:

1. Shooting is fun
2. Violence can be the answer
3. Gun culture is inclusive (but I may never feel fully at home there)
4. Gun owners are (and should be and can be more) responsible
5. We need to reclaim conversations with fellow citizens about guns

My 2019 presentation at the National Firearms Law Seminar — Gun Culture 2.0, or How a Liberal Professor Became an Armed American — was a key turning point in my book project (as I discuss in this year’s video). So, to be able to return to address the seminar again five years later was an amazing opportunity.

I hope people enjoy this year’s presentation as much as they did my first one.

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