by David Yamane | Apr 17, 2023 | accidental injury, Data, Global Burden of Disease, Guns, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Risk
I have been writing quite a bit lately about negative outcomes with firearms for my book on American gun culture. As I’ve stated repeatedly state on this blog and in various publications over the years, unlike most scholars studying guns, my starting point is...
by David Yamane | Apr 14, 2023 | accidental injury, Data, Global Burden of Disease, Guns, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, negative outcomes, Risk
Lately, I have been working on the chapter of my book on American gun culture that explores negative outcomes with firearms. Although I differ from most scholars studying guns by beginning not with gun deviance but with the normality of guns and gun owners, I do take...
by David Yamane | Nov 2, 2022 | accidental injury, Data, Gun Culture 2.0, homicide, Light Over Heat, public health, Risk, suicide
This video continues my ongoing series systematizing the dominant academic approach to understanding Gun Culture 2.0, what I call “The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership.” Here I engage the 4th of the model’s 5 points: Based on...
by David Yamane | Oct 26, 2022 | accidental injury, Data, Gun Culture 2.0, homicide, Light Over Heat, public health, Risk, suicide
This video continues last week’s video on how scholars, especially public health scholars, see guns as adding to the risk of negative outcomes. This is part of my ongoing series systematizing the dominant academic approach to understanding Gun Culture 2.0, what I call...
by David Yamane | Oct 19, 2022 | accidental injury, Data, Gun Culture 2.0, homicide, Light Over Heat, public health, Risk, suicide
This video continues my series systematizing the dominant academic approach to understanding Gun Culture 2.0, what I call “The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership.” The model has 6 points, and in this 3rd video, I discuss point 3:...
by David Yamane | Apr 26, 2022 | accidental injury, Data, firearm injury, gun violence prevention, Guns, homicide, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, suicide
In a recent post, I was critical of a publication in the New England Journal of Medicine called “Crossing Lines–A Change in the Leading Cause of Death among U.S. Children.” Despite the title focusing attention on “children,” the data...
