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It’s Time to Retire the NRA’s “Good Guy with a Gun” Slogan

by David Yamane | Jun 22, 2022 | Ackerman-McQueen, Defensive Gun Use, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat, National Rifle Association, Texas

NOTE: An earlier, abbreviated version of this text appeared as an opinion essay in the Charlotte Observer/Raleigh News & Observer on June 16, 2022. I am a defensive gun owner and a sociologist who has been studying American gun culture for a decade now. One of the...

Review of Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA by Tim Mak

by David Yamane | Dec 5, 2021 | Books, National Rifle Association, Tim Mak

Before I had a chance to read it myself, I had been hearing good things from reform minded NRA members about Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA by NPR investigative reporter Tim Mak. I’ve now had a chance to read the book in full. Despite some small...

Women, the NRA, and Gun Culture by Noah Schwartz

by David Yamane | May 15, 2020 | Gun Culture, National Rifle Association, NRATV, scholarship, women

Although I was not a fan of NRATV generally, there were some programs I thought did a good job of trying to “build bridges, not walls.” Among these were shows aimed at incorporating more women in gun culture. So I was excited when I came across an academic article —...

“Live” Tweeting the Gangster Capitalism Podcast on the NRA

by admin | May 9, 2020 | Gangster Capitalism, Gun Culture, National Rifle Association, Podcast

Following is a long Twitter thread I wrote while listening/reacting to a podcast series called Gangster Capitalism which focused this season on the current crisis of the National Rifle Association (NRA). I went into it skeptically, since the NRA is often misunderstood...

On “The Political Weaponization of Gun Owners” by the National Rifle Association

by David Yamane | Apr 29, 2020 | Data, Gun Culture, gun ownership, Matthew Lacombe, National Rifle Association

The political power of the National Rifle Association (NRA) is both frustrating to and badly misunderstood by many of its critics (as I highlighted recently in response to PBS Frontline’s program on the NRA). According to Barnard College political scientist...

PBS Frontline Episode “NRA Under Fire” and Common Narratives of the NRA

by David Yamane | Apr 12, 2020 | Gun Culture, gun politics, National Rifle Association, PBS

I don’t really want to keep talking about the National Rifle Association (NRA). I really don’t. As noted previously, when I sent a proposal for a book on Gun Culture 2.0 to Oxford University Press a couple of years ago, one of the peer reviewers took me to...
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