“Liberal Gun Owners represents a much needed alternative to standard gun ownership rights groups, and I have had the privilege of collaborating with the membership and leadership of the organization. LGO’s president, Randy Miyan, has thoughtfully and prudently moved the 2A conversation forward and away from the polarizing talk that occupies so much of the American dialogue.”
Introduction to The Liberal Gun Owners Lens
"If LGO's mission is to be the Swiss Army Knife of the nexus between gun rights and public safety, then the LGO Lens Publication is the main blade of the knife." The Liberal Gun Owners Lens can be described as a three part entity: 1. The primary part is a four-section...
Simultaneous Proponency and LGO Being The Swiss Army Knife of the Gun Rights/Public Safety Nexus
Simultaneous Proponency is the essential, core concept of the Liberal Gun Owners Mission. The mission embraces the idea that only an organization who professionally engages in the full support of both firearms ownership and public safety can gain the advanced...
The 2022 Sociology of Guns Lecture: The Human-Weapon Relationship
Miyanovich recently recorded and published an accessible version of his 2022 Sociology of Guns Lecture on The Human Weapon Relationship. You can access it below. .PART 1 PART 2 PART 3
Liberal Gun Owners Impact
Rabbi Hillel Norry Writes His Georgian Senator
My letter to GA senators, Osoff and Warnock, and Osoff’s response. Senator, I am writing as a supporter, a liberal, and a rabbi, to urge you to stand against weapons bans and legislation that limits firearms rights. The Democrats are right on so many issues, but...
Professor David Yamane Visits LGO Headquarters for a Sociology of Guns Pow-wow.
David spent the weekend at LGOHQ so that we could put minds togther about his upcoming book on gun culture, his idea for a follow-up book, his schedule for this fall's Sociology of Guns course at Wake Forest, and my major lecture in that course. We also finalized...
The LGO Lens Podcast Presents a Series on New York State Pistol and Rifle Association v. Bruen SCOTUS Opinion
In July of 2022 The LGO Lens Podcast presented a seven part series on the NYSPRA v. Bruen SCOTUS opinion. Joining us for this series were attorneys Mark Oknyansky, Hunter Starr, and Lara Smith. The series is chocked full of different angles and keen insights. Some of the...
“Projectile weaponry is uniquely human and culturally universal. We are the only species that uses projectile weaponry, and no human society has ever abandoned its use.”
-Dr. John Shea, Paleoanthropologist-
…gun ownership is normative, not deviant, behavior across vast swaths of the social landscape.”
-James D. Wright, Sociologist-
“The right to self-defense is a genuinely pre-societal right that evolved in the absence of the state…the right to personal self-defense can be best described as a right Sui generis under international law.”
-Dr. Jan Arno Hessbruegge, Human Rights and International Law Expert –
“What is the meaning of our retinues, what of our swords? Surely it would never be permitted to us to have them if we might never use them. This, therefore, is a law, O judges, not written, but born with us…”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero-
Sociology Professor
A Light On Guns
“The problem is normality is not newsworthy. It is not of concern to social scientists. It is even hard for me at times to write in an interesting way about something that is unremarkable. And yet it is my dominant experience of guns and gun owners.”
HOT TANK BRASS: THOUGHTS FROM THE LGO THINK TANK
“Laws are terrible preventatives. Their ability to affect deterrence is, generally, on the light side of moderate and this effect is always context dependent. At the level of politics, laws are used as totems and their efficacy is often oversold. Moreover, our fellow progressives seem to be entirely out of touch with the idea that you do not give governmental authorities total control over important matters. If one of our goals is to properly consider legislation as a potential means to gain capacity towards mitigating gun-related death, and if our historic analysis shows us the tendency towards governmental abuse, then the whole scheme needs to be congruent and tailored to the task while not allowing the balance of power to shift to the governmental authorities.”
“When gun people continue to display the attitude that absoulte rights mean they can do whatever they want, wherever they want, however they want – alongside a casual, indifferent, or at worst, jubilant attitude about loss of human life…they actively create anti-gun people from those who were previously indifferent. We have observed this among friends and my wife admits freely she has been pushed in that direction by what she sees in the news and the typical, desensitized, gun-people reactions to it. The attitude about ‘fuck around and find out,’ ‘got what they deserved,’ ‘muh rights’ makes other people get to a point where they’re okay with those rights just going away.
That part of the culture has to change for gun rights to survive.”
“Projectile weaponry is uniquely human and culturally universal. We are the only species that uses projectile weaponry, and no human society has ever abandoned its use.”
-Dr. John Shea, Paleoanthropologist-
…gun ownership is normative, not deviant, behavior across vast swaths of the social landscape.”
-James D. Wright, Sociologist-
“The right to self-defense is a genuinely pre-societal right that evolved in the absence of the state…the right to personal self-defense can be best described as a right Sui generis under international law.”
-Dr. Jan Arno Hessbruegge, Human Rights and International Law Expert –
“What is the meaning of our retinues, what of our swords? Surely it would never be permitted to us to have them if we might never use them. This, therefore, is a law, O judges, not written, but born with us,—
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which we have not learnt or received by tradition, or read, but which we have taken and sucked in and imbibed from nature herself; a law which we were not taught but to which we were made,—which we were not trained in, but which is ingrained in us,—namely, that if our life be in danger from plots, or from open violence, or from the weapons of robbers or enemies, every means of securing our safety is honorable.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero-