by David Yamane | Sep 30, 2023 | AR platform rifles, new shooters, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
This is the twelfth and final student gun range field trip reflection essay from my fall 2023 Sociology of Guns seminar (see Reflection #1, Reflection #2, Reflection #3, Reflection #4, Reflection #5, Reflection #6, Reflection #7, Reflection #8, Reflection #9,...
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 | Nov 12, 2020 | COVID19, Data, George Floyd, Guns, new gun owners, new shooters
Although there are and have always been new guns owners every year, the Great Gun Buying Spree of 2020 may entail more new gun owners than normal. It has certain generated more interest in new gun owners than normal. The COVID-19 pandemic compounded by the George...
by David Yamane | Sep 1, 2020 | new shooters, Shooting, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Wake Forest University
As I noted earlier, I was scheduled to teach the Sociology of Religion this semester (fall 2020), but when students found out I was not going to teach my Sociology of Guns seminar they expressed considerable disappointment. So, I switched seminars and just starting my...
by David Yamane | Jul 23, 2019 | new shooters, Open Source Defense
Yesterday I wrote about a new source of information about guns in America, written from a gun rights perspective, Open Source Defense. One aspect of their work that I neglected to mention was the dedicated page on their website called “Take a Newbie...