by David Yamane | Jan 12, 2022 | Data, Gun Culture, gun ownership, Guns, guns are normal, Light Over Heat, negative outcomes
In this first “Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane” video I take up the question, “Just how normal are guns and gun owners, anyway?” Drawing on data on negative outcomes with guns as a proportion of the total number of guns owned in the US (400 million), the...
by David Yamane | Jan 2, 2022 | Gun Culture, Guns, My Experience, Year in Review
I launched this blog in February 2019 because my Gun Culture 2.0 blog has come to be read almost exclusively by people who are invested in gun culture. Although they are an important audience for my work, I also want to translate what I am learning about guns to the...
by David Yamane | Jan 1, 2022 | Gun Culture, Guns, Light Over Heat
Happy New Year! I hope everyone has some good plans for 2022. Let me briefly tell you about one of mine. Although I posted nearly as many times on my two blogs (Gun Culture 2.0 and Gun Curious) in 2021 as I did in 2020 (129 posts vs. 135 posts), combined visitors to...
by David Yamane | Dec 23, 2021 | Boston Review, Chad Kautzer, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat
In approaching the scholarly literature in my Sociology of Guns seminar, I tell my students that they need to read in two steps: reading WITH the grain of a text and reading AGAINST the grain. I take these ideas from David Bartholomae and Aaron Petrosky’s Ways...
by David Yamane | Dec 20, 2021 | Boston Review, Chad Kautzer, Gun Culture, Guns, race
Below you will find a comment written by one of the authors whose work I criticized in a recent post, philosopher Chad Kautzer. Because many people miss (or actively avoid reading) the comments, I offered to move his comments to a free-standing post as a reply to my...
by David Yamane | Dec 18, 2021 | gender, Gun Culture, militarization, race, vigilantism
I confess to not being a regular reader of the Boston Review but my Google alert this morning for both “gun owners” and “gun culture” pointed me to a recent essay published by political philosopher Chad Kautzer, “America as a Tactical Gun...
