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”...
by David Yamane | Feb 16, 2022 | gun safety, Light Over Heat
Gun safety is something that people on all sides of the Great Gun Debates in America agree is important. But I find different understandings of “safety” in play when people discuss guns. As I have noted previously, people within the gun culture tend to focus on safety...
by David Yamane | Dec 21, 2021 | gun safety, intimate partner violence, John Johnston, Melody Lauer, Risk, Rob Pincus, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
As noted earlier, the final assignment of the semester in my Sociology of Guns seminar is for the students to write an essay reflecting on their personal experience with and understanding of guns in light of what they learned in the course. This is the eighth and...
by David Yamane | Sep 25, 2021 | gun safety, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing
This is the eighth and final student gun range field trip reflection essay I will be posting from my fall 2021 Sociology of Guns seminar (see reflection #1, reflection #2, reflection #3, reflection #4, reflection #5, reflection #6, and reflection #7). The assignment...
by David Yamane | Sep 24, 2021 | accidental injury, gun safety, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing
This is the seventh of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2021 Sociology of Guns seminar (see reflection #1, reflection #2, reflection #3, reflection #4, reflection #5, and reflection #6). The assignment to which students are...
by David Yamane | Apr 6, 2021 | gun safety, Guns, Michael Anestis, Risk, safe storage, suicide
I just finished a draft of my book chapter on “Pascal’s Wager and Firearms.” It’s all about risk, risk assessment, and risk management in relation to firearms. From there I am rolling into a chapter on negative outcomes, which will of course highlight the work of the...
