MacArthur Fellow Jennifer Carlson talks about partisanship and the need to see beyond the either-or debate surrounding guns in U.S. politics. She discusses how partisanship often ends conversation, rather than providing a starting point for new questions and new curiosities. Jennifer asks us to let go of partisanship and discover the deeper layers that lie within ourselves and others. Jennifer Carlson, PhD, a 2022 MacArthur Fellow, researches gun politics, culture and trauma in the United States. She writes on the politics of guns in American life. She is the author of three books—Citizen-Protectors (Oxford), Policing the Second Amendment (Princeton), and Merchants of the Right (Princeton)—and has published widely in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, Social Forces and Gender & Society. She is a frequent contributor to leading news outlets such as PBS, the New York Times, NPR, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times. She is currently conducting National Science Foundation-funded research on gun violence survivors. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx