by David Yamane | Jan 13, 2021 | Donald Trump, Firmin DeBrabander, Gun Culture, gun rights, insurrection, The Atlantic
In the wake of the invasion of the U.S. Capitol Building last week by supporters of President Donald Trump, philosopher Firmin DeBrabander (author of Do Guns Make Us Free? Democracy and the Armed Society) pointed a finger in The Atlantic at the gun rights movement,...
by David Yamane | Jan 12, 2021 | Gun Culture, My Experience
Although 2020 presented some unprecedented challenges, I managed to have some successes along the way. I published two scholarly articles on guns. The first, “Targeted Advertising: Documenting the Emergence of Gun Culture 2.0 in Guns Magazine, 1955–2019,” was a...
by David Yamane | Jan 11, 2021 | Gun Culture, Guns, My Experience
I launched this blog in February 2019 because my Gun Culture 2.0 blog has come to be read almost exclusively by people who are invested in gun culture. Although they are an important audience for my work, I also want to translate what I am learning about guns to the...
by David Yamane | Dec 31, 2020 | Data, Gun Culture, gun ownership, liberals, Sociological Inquiry, sociology
Early in 2020 I wrote an entry on this blog asking “Who are the liberal gun owners?” I was responding to media interest in liberals who own guns in an election year. In response to an inquiry from the Associated Press, I did some quick and dirty analyses...
by David Yamane | Dec 28, 2020 | Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
As noted earlier, the final assignment of the semester in my Sociology of Guns seminar is for the students to write an essay reflecting on their personal experience with and understanding of guns in light of what they learned in the course (full text of the assignment...
