The Gun Control Debate: Why Experience and Culture Matters

Dennis Vicencio Blanco

International Journal of Public Administration, 2016, vol. 39, issue 8, 620-634

Abstract: The article revisits the gun control debate policy comparing the varied and diverse perspectives and viewpoints held by both the culturalist and empiricist, pro-gun society and gun less society on how the gun debate may be properly resolved through a pragmatic approach of policy-making- putting emphasis on culture, experience and observation with regards to gun control. In the process of employing an idea-based coalition approach and argumentative discourse analysis towards the brewing gun control debate, the article consequently realizes the convergent role of both cultural worldviews and public opinion plays at the very heart of deliberation on gun debate.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2015.1028639

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