by David Yamane | Jun 8, 2022 | Ahmaud Arbery, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat, race, racism
This week’s episode features audio of comments I made for the Liberal Gun Owners Lens Podcast series on the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. I try to recognize both the importance of understanding race/racism in American history, and hence gun culture historically, and also...
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 | Jun 2, 2022 | Data, Gun Culture, Guns, Pew Research Center
As the age at which American adults ought to be able to buy firearms is being discussed in the wake of Buffalo and Uvalde, I want to point to some data on the age at which Americans actually get their first guns. TL:DR (1) For respondents who say they currently or...
by David Yamane | Jun 1, 2022 | diversity, Jonathan Haidt, Light Over Heat, My Experience, scholarship, The ANNALS
In my last video (Light Over Heat #22), I reflected on the value of diversity (political, cultural, social, intellectual) in exposing us to people different from us and ideas different from our own. From these differences can come greater understanding. I applied this...
by David Yamane | May 31, 2022 | Gun Culture, gun rights, Light Over Heat, mass public shooting, Newsy
I was invited on Newsy’s Morning Rush to talk about American gun culture, mass shootings, and gun control in the Wake of the Uvalde shootings. As usual, I find myself trying to capture the complex reality of guns in the United States, and pointing out ways in...
