On November 11-13, 2022, the Center for Ethics in Society, hosted a group of political scientists, sociologists, historians, lawyers, and public health experts at a workshop - “The Ethics, Law, and Social Science of Self-Defense and Firearms” - to consider many of the issues associated with America’s gun culture. The workshop’s goal was to share research and advance the scholarly conversation on gun culture without the divisions and lack of nuance that characterizes the current debate.