by David Yamane | Jun 22, 2022 | Ackerman-McQueen, Defensive Gun Use, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat, National Rifle Association, Texas
NOTE: An earlier, abbreviated version of this text appeared as an opinion essay in the Charlotte Observer/Raleigh News & Observer on June 16, 2022. I am a defensive gun owner and a sociologist who has been studying American gun culture for a decade now. One of the...
by David Yamane | Jun 8, 2022 | Ahmaud Arbery, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat, race, racism
This week’s episode features audio of comments I made for the Liberal Gun Owners Lens Podcast series on the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. I try to recognize both the importance of understanding race/racism in American history, and hence gun culture historically, and also...
by David Yamane | Jun 2, 2022 | Data, Gun Culture, guns are normal, Pew Resarch Center, Shooting
In his excellent book, The Gun Gap, political scientist Mark Joslyn highlights the ways in which gun owners and non-owners live in very different social worlds. For example, non-owners are much more likely than owners to say none of their friends own guns....
by David Yamane | Jun 2, 2022 | Data, Gun Culture, Guns, Pew Research Center
As the age at which American adults ought to be able to buy firearms is being discussed in the wake of Buffalo and Uvalde, I want to point to some data on the age at which Americans actually get their first guns. TL:DR (1) For respondents who say they currently or...
by David Yamane | May 31, 2022 | Gun Culture, gun rights, Light Over Heat, mass public shooting, Newsy
I was invited on Newsy’s Morning Rush to talk about American gun culture, mass shootings, and gun control in the Wake of the Uvalde shootings. As usual, I find myself trying to capture the complex reality of guns in the United States, and pointing out ways in...
by David Yamane | May 11, 2022 | Gun Culture, Light Over Heat, My Experience, The ANNALS, UCONN-Hartford
In Light Over Heat videos #15 (on gun research and gun policy) and #16 (on finding common ground on gun violence), I shared my thoughts on a workshop I attended in March at UCONN-Hartford. The workshop brought together authors contributing to an issue of The ANNALS of...
