The Slate article from which this was &quot;adapted&quot; may be a better link: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;behold&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;21&#x2F;kyle_cassidy_asked_americans_why_they_own_guns_photos.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;behold&#x2F;2016&#x2F;01&#x2F;21&#x2F;kyle_cassidy_as...</a><p>The Q&amp;A at the bottom of the &quot;Travel Diary&quot; excerpt on the author&#x27;s web site gives a lot of interesting background about the project:<p><pre><code>  Was there anything that surprised you while you were doing   
  this project, or did it pan out mostly as you expected?

  I was surprised by how many of the people I photographed   
  didn&#x27;t fit the stereotype in my head. I realized when I 
  started this that I had only a very abstract idea of who 
  gun owners were. And when you said the words there was a 
  vague, beat-up pickup truck with a guy in a dirty baseball 
  hat, and a Bush&#x2F;Cheney sticker on the the back image 
  floating around my head and while I definitely met people 
  like that, and they weren&#x27;t rare, it was anything but 
  homogeneous – the people I met were really very diverse I 
  was surprised at the number of people who owned guns but 
  hadn&#x27;t fired them for years, and surprised by the number of 
  John Kerry stickers on the cars in the driveways of people 
  I photographed. I thought, going into this, that it was 
  going to be something of a monoculture -- but it really 
  wasn&#x27;t.
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