Gregory Gibson says, “I’m a writer because my son Galen was killed in a school shooting in 1992. In in the wake of this event, in order to keep from harming or killing myself or anyone else, I determined to pour my energies into answering the question foremost in everyone’s mind, mine foremost - “How could this have happened?”

A lengthy and therapeutic investigation led to my first book, Gone Boy, followed by four more books. And now this calm, demented one.”

Traveling the nation, Matt Donovan examines the paradox of a country plagued by gun violence yet consumed with protecting the right to bear arms. The Dug-Up Gun Museum confronts our country’s obsession with guns to explore America’s deep- seated political divisions and issues linked to violence, race, power, and privilege.