by David Yamane | Aug 4, 2021 | crime, homicide, injury, Sociology of Guns Seminar
I include the modifier “criminal” here, because descriptively homicide means causing the death of another person. This would include legally justifiable killing (e.g., in self-defense). Some who study “gun violence” actually do not distinguish...
by David Yamane | Apr 27, 2021 | Guns, homicide, Law, mass murder, mass public shooting
Another day in America, another pile of bodies, and another set of cries for gun control. Predictably, the Atlanta and Boulder and Indianapolis mass public shootings were followed by calls to ban AR-style rifles. President Biden proposes to subject “ghost guns” to...
by David Yamane | Oct 22, 2020 | Claude Werner, Data, homicide, Michael Soldini, negative outcomes, Rob Pincus, Sociology of Guns Seminar, suicide, Walk the Talk America
Although my scholarship and teaching on the sociology of guns highlights the non-criminological and epidemiological aspects of guns in society, I do not entirely ignore negative outcomes with guns. In my Sociology of Guns seminar, I typically allocate 2 or 3 of the...
by admin | Oct 2, 2009 | Guns, homicide, Law, mass murder, mass public shooting
Another day in America, another pile of bodies, and another set of cries for gun control. Predictably, the Atlanta and Boulder and Indianapolis mass public shootings were followed by calls to ban AR-style rifles. President Biden proposes to subject “ghost guns” to...
