by David Yamane | Feb 8, 2022 | Gun Culture, human-weapon relationship, LGO Lens, Liberal Gun Club, liberals, Randy Miyan
Recently, without fanfare equivalent to its significance, the Liberal Gun Owners launched a new website, LGO Lens. The site is a content hub on which people can access blog posts, learn more about the LGO and allied organizations, link to the Liberal Gun Owners Lens...
by David Yamane | Sep 18, 2021 | liberals, Risk, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing
This is the second of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2021 Sociology of Guns seminar (see reflection #1). The assignment to which students are responding can be found here. I am grateful to these students for their willingness to...
by David Yamane | Aug 6, 2021 | gun politics, liberals, Randy Miyan, Sociology of Guns Seminar
Guns and gun culture in the United States are strongly associated with political and cultural conservatism. So much so that what requires explanation is not the link between guns and conservatism but guns and liberalism. One-fifth of gun owners self-identify as...
by David Yamane | Dec 31, 2020 | Data, Gun Culture, gun ownership, liberals, Sociological Inquiry, sociology
Early in 2020 I wrote an entry on this blog asking “Who are the liberal gun owners?” I was responding to media interest in liberals who own guns in an election year. In response to an inquiry from the Associated Press, I did some quick and dirty analyses...
