by David Yamane | Dec 3, 2019 | Advertising, Colt's, Data, Gun Culture, Guns magazine, sociology
As noted in my recent post about the changing themes in gun advertising in The American Rifleman from 1918-2017, I have just finished a replication study based on advertising in Guns magazine from 1955 (when the magazine was founded) through 2019. It documents the...
by David Yamane | Dec 2, 2019 | Advertising, Books, Data, Gun Culture, sociology, The American Rifleman
I realized recently that I never posted the published version of my work analyzing gun advertisements in The American Rifleman. It documents the decline of “Gun Culture 1.0” themes of hunting and recreational/sport shooting and rise of “Gun Culture...
by David Yamane | Nov 26, 2019 | academic bias, Books, Gun Culture, publication, scholarship
A couple of years ago, I was asked to write the concluding chapter to a book called Understanding America’s Gun Culture. My chapter would be titled, “What’s Next?” Unfortunately, chapters in edited scholarly books are where ideas go to die. As one scholar put it:...
by David Yamane | Sep 10, 2019 | culture war, Gun Culture, guns, New York Times, open carry, stigma, Walmart
As someone who came from completely outside gun culture and became a gun owner later in life, I have tried often to find a middle ground between culture warriors on both sides of the Great American Gun Debates. That, in fact, is one of the purposes of this blog. As I...
by David Yamane | Aug 7, 2019 | Clayton Cramer, Gun Culture, Gun Culture 2.0, Hunting, Richard Hofstadter, target shooting
Whenever dramatic events happen in the US involving guns, I hear from the media. Not a ton of media, alas, since my overarching position that “guns are normal and normal people use guns” doesn’t fit most media narratives following dramatic events....
by David Yamane | Jul 22, 2019 | Gun Culture, gun rights, Open Source Defense
Open Source Defense is an online platform (website/blog/digital newsletter) dedicated to defending gun rights by enlivening, enlightening, and enriching the discussion of guns — and gun culture itself — in the US. I enjoy the materials they are producing,...
