47 min

Part Six - Lions, Tigers, and AR-15s Life on the Ark: The Zanesville Animal Catastrophe A Decade Later

    • Documentary

How police militarization and notions of public safety shaped the public's response to the incident. (Note: This episode mentions a proposed federal bill called The Big Cat Public Safety Act. Since the time of this recording, that bill has passed through both the House of Representatives and the Senate to become law.)



Further reading:

Jennifer Carlson, Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline, Oxford University Press, 2015.

​Jennifer Carlson, Policing the Second Amendment, Princeton University Press, 2022.

How police militarization and notions of public safety shaped the public's response to the incident. (Note: This episode mentions a proposed federal bill called The Big Cat Public Safety Act. Since the time of this recording, that bill has passed through both the House of Representatives and the Senate to become law.)



Further reading:

Jennifer Carlson, Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline, Oxford University Press, 2015.

​Jennifer Carlson, Policing the Second Amendment, Princeton University Press, 2022.

47 min