by David Yamane | Mar 4, 2022 | John Johnston, K.A. Clark, new gun owners, new shooters, Risk, Shooting
Now that I have been wandering around American gun culture for over a decade, I consume fewer gun-related podcasts than I used to. Time is my scarcest resource and as podcasts have proliferated, the signal-to-noise ratio is often too low to merit the investment. That...
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 | Dec 16, 2021 | John Johnston, Melody Lauer, Randy Miyan, 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. Here is the third of...
by David Yamane | Dec 13, 2021 | Craig Douglas, John Johnston, Melody Lauer, Randy Miyan, Rob Pincus, sociology, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
Another year of Sociology of Guns at Wake Forest University is in the books. This is the 7th time in 7 years I have taught the course. COVID made some things different this semester. In fall 2020, I taught the course online. I was happy to be able to meet this...
by David Yamane | Aug 1, 2021 | Concealed Carry Revolution, John Johnston, Sociology of Guns Seminar
The liberalization of concealed carry laws over the past several decades represents a dramatic expansion of the right to bear arms in the United States. It is an integral aspect of contemporary defensive gun culture and facilitates the ongoing development of Gun...
by David Yamane | Jul 13, 2021 | Craig Douglas, John Johnston, Rob Pincus, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Veterans Range, Wake Forest University
It’s hard to believe that I first taught my “Sociology of Guns” seminar at Wake Forest six years ago, in the fall of 2015. This fall I will teach the course for the seventh time in seven academic years. Although some aspects of the course do not...
