by David Yamane | Jul 26, 2023 | Ashley Hlebinsky, Cody Firearms Museum, Danny Michael, Gun Culture, Guns, Light Over Heat, new gun owners, Wyoming
On my recent road trip to Wyoming, I stopped in Cody to visit the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Curator Danny Michael was good enough to give me a tour of the museum and I later went back and filmed some additional bits to create three...
by David Yamane | Jun 7, 2023 | Gun Culture, gun ownership, gun safety, Light Over Heat, mental health, new gun owners, Walk the Talk America
A colleague of mine, David Zehrung, is a psychologist practicing in Pennsylvania. He will be speaking this month to the Pennsylvania Psychological Association about firearms. He asked me to provide a 3-minute overview of what I’d like psychologists to know about gun...
by David Yamane | Jun 1, 2023 | democracy, Gun Culture, Harel Shapira, Light Over Heat, New York Times, Personal Protection, Wake Forest University
On my “Light Over Heat” YouTube channel this week, I discuss sociologist Harel Shapira’s opinion essay, “Firearms Taught Me, and America, a Very Dangerous Lesson,” published in the New York Times on 16 May 2023 (gift link here should take you behind the NYT paywall if...
by David Yamane | May 31, 2023 | democracy, Gun Culture, Harel Shapira, Light Over Heat, New York Times, Personal Protection, Wake Forest University
On my “Light Over Heat” YouTube channel this week, I discuss sociologist Harel Shapira’s opinion essay, “Firearms Taught Me, and America, a Very Dangerous Lesson,” published in the New York Times on 16 May 2023 (gift link here should take you behind the NYT paywall if...
by David Yamane | May 26, 2023 | Avidity Arms, congregational security, Gun Culture, Liberal Gun Club, Lutheran Ethicists' Network, My Experience, National African American Gun Association, Rob Pincus, Vail Symposium, Wake Forest University, Wyoming Firearms Research Center
I’ve had some personal and professional setbacks so far in 2023, but I’ve also had some amazing opportunities to bring light to culture war over guns in America. I’m grateful for that. In this post, I want to share some of what I have planned for the...
by David Yamane | May 18, 2023 | California, Gun Culture, My Experience, Open Source Shooting Sports, Trish Sargentini
“It’s fun. It’s a sport. And it’s a skill.” Participant in Open Source Shooting Sports range event It’s no secret that early in my research on American gun culture, I took Michael Bane’s idea of a Gun Culture 2.0 and brought...
