by David Yamane | Mar 24, 2020 | coronavirus, COVID19, Data, gun sales, guns, Personal Protection, Wall Street Journal
Barack Obama has apparently met his match as the “greatest gun salesman in American history.” On Sunday, an acquaintance from my years wandering around American gun culture messaged me to say that he had not seen a gun buying response like this one in some...
by David Yamane | Mar 17, 2020 | Data, Gun Ownership, guns
When I launched this blog in February 2019, I noted that no one had (yet) systematically studied people who are gun curious. The Pew Research Center’s 2017 report, “America’s Complex Relationship With Guns,” offers some important leads, though. Instead of simply...
by David Yamane | Mar 10, 2020 | Gun Culture, guns, scholarship, Sociological Perspectives, sociology
I am very pleased to announce that Trent Steidley (U. of Denver) and I are editing a special issue of Sociological Perspectives on guns. Please see the full call for papers for more information. Proposals are due April 30th and final manuscripts September 1st. ...
by David Yamane | Mar 1, 2020 | academic bias, guns, Jonathan Haidt, My Experience, scholarship
I reviewed articles for two scholarly journals yesterday, one of which was quite good and one of which had a very good empirical analysis embedded in a badly biased introduction and conclusion. It becomes more and more challenging to maintain my equanimity as I review...
by David Yamane | Feb 28, 2020 | Advertising, Colt's, Data, FNH, Gun Culture, guns, militarization, Violence Policy Center
Criticisms of the “militarization” of American gun culture are commonplace. No group has done more to attack this phenomenon than the Violence Policy Center (VPC) and their 2011 report on “The Militarization of the U.S. Civilian Firearms...
by David Yamane | Feb 18, 2020 | Books, Guest Post, guns, Law
I see and hear a lot of ideas about guns and gun culture shared in private settings, either on social media or face-to-face, that I wish would garner a wider audience. It occurred to me that I could re-post or recount some of those ideas on this blog, for the benefit...
