by David Yamane | Oct 19, 2023 | Light Over Heat, Memphis Beech, Podcast
The deadline for completing my Gun Curious book manuscript is hanging over my head like a guillotine. With decreasing confidence, I am hoping to finish the job before it drops. Because I didn’t have time to record new content this week, I was going to edit...
by David Yamane | Feb 26, 2023 | 97Percent, Gun Culture, gun politics, My Experience, Podcast, The Republican Professor
Can we use the social media echo chamber to escape the echo chambers we all live in? I try to do this by maintaining an ideologically diverse set of friends and followers on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. I am also fortunate to be asked to speak about guns by...
by David Yamane | Sep 13, 2022 | Gun Culture, Liberal Gun Club, new gun owners, Podcast
I recently received an update from the gun curious podcaster I spoke with earlier this year. He has now taken a 4-hour basic handgun course (with live fire) and plans to take additional courses then apply for his New Jersey firearm license. His is an increasingly...
by David Yamane | Apr 15, 2022 | Gun Culture, Liberal Gun Club, Podcast
The animating idea of this blog is to speak (primarily) to those who are neither totally bought into the idea of guns nor totally opposed to it. That is, to the gun curious. I recently had the opportunity to chat with just such a person. Mark McNease is a politically...
by David Yamane | Apr 12, 2022 | Gun Culture, Hunting, My Experience, Outdoor Writers Association of America, Podcast, religion, Reverend Hunter, Tony Jones
In October 2021, I traveled from North Carolina to Vermont to attend and present at the Outdoor Writers Association of America’s (OWAA) annual conference. After flying into Burlington, I had a 90-minute long shuttle bus ride to the Jay Peak Resort, near the...
by David Yamane | Dec 2, 2021 | Chris Cheng, David French, Gun Culture, Kyle Rittenhouse, Podcast, Stephen Gutowski, Tim Mak
In his excellent book, The Gun Gap, political scientist Mark Joslyn highlights the ways in which gun owners and non-owners live in very different social worlds. For example, non-owners are much more likely than owners to say none of their friends own guns....
