Gregg Lee Carter

Bryant University

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Professor and Chair of the History and Social Sciences Department at Bryant University in Rhode Island; editor of Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia

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George Zimmerman is hardly the only American who owns a gun, and gun sales increase with every high profile shooting.

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