by David Yamane | Sep 18, 2023 | gun ownership, race, Sandy Hook massacre, Sociology of Guns Seminar, South, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
This is the fourth of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2023 Sociology of Guns seminar (see Reflection #1, Reflection #2, and Reflection #3). The assignment to which students are responding can be found here. I am grateful to these...
by David Yamane | Aug 23, 2023 | diversity, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat, National African American Gun Association, Philip Smith, race
I attended the first National Convention of the National African American Gun Association (NAAGA) in Atlanta a few weeks ago. On “Light Over Heat” this week, I published the second of two planned videos reflecting on the event. The first video covered what exactly...
by David Yamane | Aug 16, 2023 | diversity, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat, National African American Gun Association, race
I attended the first National Convention of the National African American Gun Association (NAAGA) in Atlanta a couple of weeks ago. On “Light Over Heat” this week, I published the first of two planned videos reflecting on the event. NAAGA occupies a unique position in...
by David Yamane | Apr 18, 2023 | Asian Americans, Chris Cheng, Data, Guns, Half Moon Bay, mass murder, mass public shooting, mass shootings, My Experience, race, Randy Miyan
RE-POSTING FROM MY GUN CULTURE 2.0 BLOG I am Asian-American (half Japanese-American on my father’s side) and grew up in Half Moon Bay, California. The coincidence of this with the mass murder of 7 people in Half Moon Bay by an Asian man led to a conversation recently...
by David Yamane | Nov 9, 2022 | Data, gender, Gun Culture 2.0, gun ownership, Light Over Heat, psychology of guns, race, social class, The Standard Model
This video concludes my ongoing series systematizing the dominant academic approach to understanding Gun Culture 2.0, what I call “The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership.” Here I engage the 5th of the model’s 5 points: That...
by David Yamane | Sep 21, 2022 | Black Lives Matter, Data, Gun Culture, January 6, Light Over Heat, publication, race
A colleague, Ryan Jerome Lecount of Hamline University, pointed me to a recently published study of how race, support for Black Lives Matter, and gun ownership shape people’s views of protesters at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The results are interesting and...
