by David Yamane | Oct 19, 2022 | accidental injury, Data, Gun Culture 2.0, homicide, Light Over Heat, public health, Risk, suicide
This video continues my 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.” The model has 6 points, and in this 3rd video, I discuss point 3:...
by David Yamane | Oct 17, 2022 | gun safety, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Veterans Range, Wake Forest University
This is the eighth of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2022 Sociology of Guns seminar (see reflection #1 and reflection #2 and reflection #3 and reflection #4 and reflection #5 and reflection #6 and reflection #7). The assignment to...
by David Yamane | Oct 12, 2022 | Defensive Gun Use, Gun Culture, Gun Culture 2.0, Light Over Heat, Personal Protection
Last week I discussed some work I am doing 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.” The model has 6 points. In this 2nd of 5 planned...
by David Yamane | Oct 5, 2022 | Gun Culture, Gun Culture 2.0, gun ownership, Light Over Heat, Risk
In mid-November, I am presenting at a workshop about firearms and self-defense at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. I am using the occasion to write out something that has been in my mind for some time: Systematizing the dominant academic approach to...
by David Yamane | Oct 4, 2022 | Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Veterans Range, Wake Forest University
This is the seventh of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2022 Sociology of Guns seminar (see reflection #1 and reflection #2 and reflection #3 and reflection #4 and reflection #5 and reflection #6). The assignment to which students...
