by David Yamane | Dec 23, 2020 | gun safety, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
I learn something every semester from each of my students, but one student’s work this semester was more of a revelation to me. Bevin Burns drew on her experience promoting sexual health and education on college campuses to highlight some potential negative...
by David Yamane | Jun 6, 2020 | COVID19, Duke Center for Firearms Law, gun safety, gun sales, Guns
I was privileged to be invited recently to contribute to an ongoing series of videos produced by the Duke Center for Firearms Law on COVID-19 and guns. I was asked to speak about my approach to studying guns, to speculate about why people are buying guns during the...
by David Yamane | Mar 12, 2020 | Gun Culture, gun safety, National Rifle Association
Motivated by those who would reduce gun culture in the United States to the National Rifle Association (NRA), I have tried as much as possible to think and write about gun culture without paying too much attention to the NRA. In fact, when I sent out a book proposal a...
by Grant Cunningham | Aug 7, 2019 | awareness, gun safety, Holster & Carry Methods, Incident Analysis, Legal Issues, negative outcomes, Personal Safety, Prepping, reading list, realistic, Training & Teaching
Welcome to your Hump Day Reading List! This is your refuge from the impersonal Google and FaceBook algorithms that seem to run our lives these days. Instead of a machine deciding what you’ll see, I personally go out and look for great articles that have value...
by Grant Cunningham | Jul 10, 2019 | gun safety, Legal Issues, mythbusting, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, Prepping, reading list, realistic, Training & Teaching
Welcome to the Hump Day Reading List! Here are what I believe to be the three most important articles you can read this week to enhance your personal and family safety: This week in Defense and Training: “Stop practicing shooting!” It’s a...
by Grant Cunningham | Jun 12, 2019 | Accessories, attacks, gun safety, Home Security, mythbusting, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, reading list, Unarmed Defense
Welcome to the Hump Day Reading List! Here are what I believe to be the three most important articles you can read this week to enhance your personal and family safety: This week in Defense and Training: Defending against a dog attack (Note: I hesitated...
