by Kyle | Jun 26, 2023 | 2nd Amendment, gun policy, gun politics, gun rights, gun safety, gun violence prevention, guns are normal, LGC Blog, Press Release, Root Cause Mitigation
Several groups including the Michigan Chapter of the Liberal Gun Club, working with Progress MI, developed a root cause mitigation platform to address all forms of violent crime by addressing the various causes of crime instead of infringing upon the Constitutionally...
by David Yamane | Jun 15, 2023 | Books, conservatism, democracy, gun politics, gun rights, gun stores, Guns, Jennifer Carlson
I was asked to review Jennifer Carlson’s new book, Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2023) for the International Sociological Association’s journal, International Sociology Reviews. I am...
by David Yamane | Feb 26, 2023 | 97Percent, Gun Culture, gun politics, My Experience, Podcast, The Republican Professor
Can we use the social media echo chamber to escape the echo chambers we all live in? I try to do this by maintaining an ideologically diverse set of friends and followers on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. I am also fortunate to be asked to speak about guns by...
by David Yamane | Feb 6, 2023 | Books, democrats, Gun Culture, gun politics, Guns, liberals, Mark Joslyn, Rick Wilson
I don’t post much about guns and electoral/party politics on my blogs because I find them frustrating and impediments to understanding gun culture. But I was visiting one of my best friends recently and talking about paths forward for my gun culture book. One...
by David Yamane | Sep 26, 2022 | gun politics, liberals, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Veterans Range, Wake Forest University
This is the sixth of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2022 Sociology of Guns seminar (see reflection #1 and reflection #2 and reflection #3 and reflection #4 and reflection #5). The assignment to which students are responding can be...
by David Yamane | Aug 6, 2021 | gun politics, liberals, Randy Miyan, Sociology of Guns Seminar
Guns and gun culture in the United States are strongly associated with political and cultural conservatism. So much so that what requires explanation is not the link between guns and conservatism but guns and liberalism. One-fifth of gun owners self-identify as...
