by David Yamane | Feb 8, 2023 | Guns, Kenya, Shooting, Sociology of Guns Seminar
One of the students in my Sociology of Guns seminar last fall grew up in Nairobi, Kenya and still has family there. She is what I would call an open-minded critic of guns, or perhaps a gun skeptic, as reflected in her class range field trip reflection, “The Gun Felt...
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 | Nov 16, 2022 | Guns, Light Over Heat, My Experience, Saint Anselm College, scholarship
This video offers an overview of the 14 papers presented at a workshop on “The Ethics, Law, and Social Science of Firearms and Self-Defense” convened by the Center for Ethics in Society at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH. Out of respect for the privacy of the...
by David Yamane | Oct 31, 2022 | AAPI, Asian Americans, COVID19, Data, gun ownership, Guns, new gun owners, Personal Protection, racism, Risk
As a gunologist, not to mention an Asian-American gun owner, a recent episode of the Red, Blue & Brady podcast on racism against the AAPI community and gun ownership caught my attention. The episode focused on a recently published study by a group of public health...
by David Yamane | Sep 14, 2022 | field trip, Guns, Shooting, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Veterans Range, Wake Forest University
Last week on “Light Over Heat,” I reported on my 8th Sociology of Guns class field trip to the gun range. This week, I summarize major themes in the students’ field trip reflection essays and read some snippets of the essays that highlight those themes....
by David Yamane | Sep 7, 2022 | field trip, Guns, Shooting, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Veterans Range, Wake Forest University
Under beautiful, sunny North Carolina skies, my Fall 2022 Sociology of Guns seminar students completed their mandatory field trip to the gun range on August 31st. This is the 8th time I have taught the course and the 8th successful field trip we have taken as a class....
