by David Yamane | Aug 2, 2023 | Cody Firearms Museum, Danny Michael, Gun Culture, Guns, Light Over Heat, material culture, Wyoming
I just posted the second of three planned videos for my “Light Over Heat” YouTube channel about my recent visit to the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. Curator Danny Michael (pictured in the video’s thumbnail) was...
by David Yamane | Jul 26, 2023 | Ashley Hlebinsky, Cody Firearms Museum, Danny Michael, Gun Culture, Guns, Light Over Heat, new gun owners, Wyoming
On my recent road trip to Wyoming, I stopped in Cody to visit the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Curator Danny Michael was good enough to give me a tour of the museum and I later went back and filmed some additional bits to create three...
by David Yamane | Jun 28, 2023 | gun violence prevention, Light Over Heat, My Experience, negative outcomes, Vail Symposium
This week’s “Light Over Heat” video offers my thoughts on the Vail Symposium Conversation on Controversial Issues I attended last week in Colorado. The topic of the conversation was gun violence and it was hosted by Clay Jenkinson, with Josh Horwitz from...
by David Yamane | Jun 27, 2023 | Sociology of Guns Seminar, Veterans Range, Wake Forest University
In Fall 2023, I am teaching my “Sociology of Guns” seminar at Wake Forest University for the ninth consecutive academic year, dating back to the fall of 2015. Probably the most remarked-on aspect of the class is taking the students on a field trip to the gun range at...
by David Yamane | Jun 21, 2023 | culture of fear, Data, Fear, Light Over Heat, negative outcomes
This week’s “Light Over Heat” video explains a little trick I use to see through the fog produced by the mass-mediated culture of fear. If someone says they are “seeing more X” — where X = some negative outcome with guns — I distinguish between...
