by David Yamane | Mar 8, 2023 | American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Data, diversity, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat
I have presented my work dozens of times in the 30 years since my first academic conference presentation in 1992. I had never missed a scheduled presentation until this year, when I could not attend a session (organized by Nicholas Buttrick and including Tara Warner...
by David Yamane | Feb 26, 2023 | 97Percent, Gun Culture, gun politics, My Experience, Podcast, The Republican Professor
Can we use the social media echo chamber to escape the echo chambers we all live in? I try to do this by maintaining an ideologically diverse set of friends and followers on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. I am also fortunate to be asked to speak about guns by...
by David Yamane | Feb 13, 2023 | Gun Culture, gun violence prevention, Lutheran Ethicists' Network, My Experience, publication
As I discussed recently, I had the opportunity to share my views on American gun culture and gun violence at the 31st annual gathering of the Lutheran Ethicists’ Network (LEN) in January. A written version of my talk will be published in the Journal of Lutheran...
by David Yamane | Feb 10, 2023 | conversation, empathy, Gun Culture, Lutheran Ethicists' Network, My Experience, Sherry Turkle
Just as I was returning home from the promising Deseret Elevate gathering I recently described, I received an interesting invitation from some leaders of the Lutheran Ethicists’ Network (LEN). The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA – the liberal...
by David Yamane | Feb 8, 2023 | Guns, Kenya, Shooting, Sociology of Guns Seminar
One of the students in my Sociology of Guns seminar last fall grew up in Nairobi, Kenya and still has family there. She is what I would call an open-minded critic of guns, or perhaps a gun skeptic, as reflected in her class range field trip reflection, “The Gun Felt...
