I recently read a graphic novel, Should We Buy a Gun? (2025) by Dave Cowen, who uses the comic medium to explore a variety of perspectives on the issues raised by the book’s title. It centers on a progressive couple who starts to have doubts about any opposition to gun ownership when they become victims of a random street crime, which shakes their fundamental sense of security. Through engagement with a broad range of perspectives from friends, family, and coworkers, the characters learn that the question is far more complex than any simple position – right or left, pro or anti – can account for. The book doesn’t give us any answers; it is simply skiing questions, but my bet is that you will leave it less certain of your own stance than you were before reading it. This post is an interview with the author Dave Cowen.