by David Yamane | Sep 22, 2023 | AR platform rifles, gun ownership, gun safety, school shootings, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
This is the sixth of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2023 Sociology of Guns seminar (see Reflection #1, Reflection #2, Reflection #3, Reflection #4, and Reflection #5). The assignment to which students are responding can be found...
by David Yamane | Sep 19, 2023 | AR platform rifles, gun ownership, gun safety, Sociology of Guns Seminar, South, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
This is the fifth of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2023 Sociology of Guns seminar (see Reflection #1, Reflection #2, Reflection #3, and Reflection #4). The assignment to which students are responding can be found here. I am...
by David Yamane | Sep 18, 2023 | gun ownership, race, Sandy Hook massacre, Sociology of Guns Seminar, South, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
This is the fourth of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2023 Sociology of Guns seminar (see Reflection #1, Reflection #2, and Reflection #3). The assignment to which students are responding can be found here. I am grateful to these...
by David Yamane | Sep 17, 2023 | gun ownership, LGBT, rural, Sociology of Guns Seminar, South, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
This is the third of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2023 Sociology of Guns seminar (see Reflection #1 and Reflection #2). The assignment to which students are responding can be found here. I am grateful to these students for their...
by David Yamane | Aug 28, 2023 | Data, gun ownership, Guns
I have written previously about how survey research underestimates the rate of gun ownership in the United States. The main sources of “false negatives” (people who own guns but tell survey researchers they do not) are (1) people who don’t want...
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...
