by David Yamane | Sep 9, 2022 | field trip, Shooting, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Wake Forest University
To prime my Sociology of Guns class’ discussion of our field trip to the gun range, I gave each student an index card and asked them to write down the first word that came to mind when thinking back on the experience. The photo below shows the 16 diverse...
by David Yamane | Sep 8, 2022 | .50 caliber rifle, field trip, My Experience, Shooting, Sociology of Guns Seminar
In my Sociology of Guns class yesterday, we de-briefed our field trip to the gun range the previous week. Some of the students’ written reflections are forthcoming – always some of the most read posts on this blog. In the meantime, pictured below are 4...
by David Yamane | Sep 7, 2022 | field trip, Guns, Shooting, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Veterans Range, Wake Forest University
Under beautiful, sunny North Carolina skies, my Fall 2022 Sociology of Guns seminar students completed their mandatory field trip to the gun range on August 31st. This is the 8th time I have taught the course and the 8th successful field trip we have taken as a class....
by David Yamane | Jun 2, 2022 | Data, Gun Culture, guns are normal, Pew Resarch Center, Shooting
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....
by David Yamane | May 29, 2022 | Automatic Weapons, Guns, John Daub, Karl Rehn, KR Training, Light Over Heat, My Experience, Shooting, Texas
Wow, this is the 20th episode of “Light Over Heat” that I recorded! I can’t believe it. It seems like I was just recording my 10th episode not long ago. This second set of videos (Season 2) was supposed to be organized thematically around t-shirts I own. It mostly...
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...