Shooters, Spirituality, and Shots: The Surprising Relationship between Gun Ownership, Evangelicalism, and COVID-19 Vaccines

• In Event: Religious Responses to COVID-19

Brief Overview

I find that white evangelicals are less likely to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, that gun owners are surprisingly more likely to be vaccinated, and that gun ownership fundamentally shifts the relationship between evangelicalism and vaccine refusal.

Author

• Abigail Vegter, Berry College