by David Yamane | May 10, 2023 | crime, Everytown, Gun Owners Radio, Law, Light Over Heat, Personal Protection, Stand Your Ground, The Hill
This week on my “Light Over Heat” YouTube channel, I address the idea that people can or should “shoot first and ask questions later.” It’s sad that I have to point out that this is garbage, but it seems I do. It is extremely frustrating for me to see people (1) treat...
by David Yamane | May 3, 2023 | book publishing, Guns, Light Over Heat, My Experience
What was supposed to be a brief hiatus from my “Light Over Heat” YouTube channel almost became permanent. This video explains why. A lot of it had to do with my feeling like I was talking into a void, and a lot of that feeling had to do with negative...
by David Yamane | Apr 26, 2023 | crime, Fear, Guns, Light Over Heat, My Experience
I have been on a 5-month hiatus from my “Light Over Heat” YouTube channel and seriously thought about not coming back. (More on that in a later video.) But seeing the frustration and fatigue in my son while talking about all of the recent shootings in America (Kansas...
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 | Apr 17, 2023 | accidental injury, Data, Global Burden of Disease, Guns, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Risk
I have been writing quite a bit lately about negative outcomes with firearms for my book on American gun culture. As I’ve stated repeatedly state on this blog and in various publications over the years, unlike most scholars studying guns, my starting point is...
