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 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 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 | Oct 17, 2022 | gun safety, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Veterans Range, Wake Forest University
This is the eighth 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 and reflection #6 and reflection #7). The assignment to...
by David Yamane | Feb 23, 2022 | Brady United Against Gun Violence, gun safety, Light Over Heat, Rob Pincus, safe storage, staging firearms
As with gun safety, safe storage of firearms is something that people on all sides of the Great Gun Debates in America agree is important. But the way some gun violence prevention organizations, like Brady United Against Gun Violence in the “End Family Fire”...