by David Yamane | Mar 9, 2022 | Light Over Heat, My Experience
With this 10th episode of “Light Over Heat,” I am going to call Season 1 a wrap. Three months ago, I had serious doubts about my ability to do weekly videos on this channel. I was fortunate to be able to consult with John Correia of Active Self-Protection who advised,...
by David Yamane | Mar 4, 2022 | John Johnston, K.A. Clark, new gun owners, new shooters, Risk, Shooting
Now that I have been wandering around American gun culture for over a decade, I consume fewer gun-related podcasts than I used to. Time is my scarcest resource and as podcasts have proliferated, the signal-to-noise ratio is often too low to merit the investment. That...
by David Yamane | Mar 2, 2022 | Guns, lethality, Light Over Heat, Open Source Defense, Tom Givens
People in the gun culture often talk about guns as tools, and those outside gun culture reject the idea that guns are just another tool. As is often the case with guns, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. In Episode 9 of “Light Over Heat,” I argue that guns are...
by David Yamane | Feb 23, 2022 | Brady United Against Gun Violence, gun safety, Light Over Heat, Rob Pincus, safe storage, staging firearms
As with gun safety, safe storage of firearms is something that people on all sides of the Great Gun Debates in America agree is important. But the way some gun violence prevention organizations, like Brady United Against Gun Violence in the “End Family Fire”...
by David Yamane | Feb 18, 2022 | Data, gender, Guns, Personal Protection, race, scholarship, social class
Last year I was invited to contribute to a special issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science by the editors Cassandra Crifasi, Jennifer Dineen, and Kerri Raissian. The theme of this issue is “Gun Violence in American: What Works and...
