by David Yamane | Jun 15, 2023 | Books, conservatism, democracy, gun politics, gun rights, gun stores, Guns, Jennifer Carlson
I was asked to review Jennifer Carlson’s new book, Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2023) for the International Sociological Association’s journal, International Sociology Reviews. I am...
by David Yamane | Jun 14, 2023 | Duke Center for Firearms Law, Law, Light Over Heat, My Experience, Wyoming Firearms Research Center
In this week’s “Light Over Heat” video, I talk about attending a University of Wyoming School of Law Firearms Research Center and Duke University Center for Firearms Law works-in-progress workshop at Texas A&M Law School in Fort Worth. I benefitted...
by David Yamane | Jun 13, 2023 | Books, Bruen decision, Heller decision, Law, Robert Spitzer
As I have noted previously, I write periodic reviews for CHOICE, a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries that provides reviews of scholarly books for people working in higher education, especially librarians. I was recently asked to...
by David Yamane | Jun 7, 2023 | Gun Culture, gun ownership, gun safety, Light Over Heat, mental health, new gun owners, Walk the Talk America
A colleague of mine, David Zehrung, is a psychologist practicing in Pennsylvania. He will be speaking this month to the Pennsylvania Psychological Association about firearms. He asked me to provide a 3-minute overview of what I’d like psychologists to know about gun...
by David Yamane | Jun 1, 2023 | democracy, Gun Culture, Harel Shapira, Light Over Heat, New York Times, Personal Protection, Wake Forest University
On my “Light Over Heat” YouTube channel this week, I discuss sociologist Harel Shapira’s opinion essay, “Firearms Taught Me, and America, a Very Dangerous Lesson,” published in the New York Times on 16 May 2023 (gift link here should take you behind the NYT paywall if...
