by David Yamane | Dec 18, 2020 | Sociology of Guns Seminar, Wake Forest University
The sixth iteration of my Sociology of Guns seminar at Wake Forest University is in the books. Despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, it was (still) a pleasure to teach this course. (You can read much more about previous editions of the course here.)...
by David Yamane | Dec 16, 2020 | Books, gun politics, Kennett and Anderson, Law
So began four years of the voluminous debate over the gun and its place in American life, fully documented in 4,000 pages of congressional hearings and hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles. It was to be a tedious and repetitive dialogue of the deaf. — On gun...
by David Yamane | Dec 15, 2020 | Books, france, Guns, militia, Quote of the Day
Louis XIV in 1864 by Hyacinthe Rigaud, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons The disarming of the militia was part of the monarchy’s long effort to disarm its subjects, especially its potentially troublesome ones. . . . In the interest of public order, minority groups...
by David Yamane | Dec 14, 2020 | Books, Data, Sullivan Law
Coroner’s Clerk Lebrun, who played a major role in the drafting of the Sullivan Law, pointed out that the number of suicides by firearms had dropped 40% over the previous year. He credited the new law with this decline. Lebrun did not comment on the number of...
by David Yamane | Nov 14, 2020 | COVID19, Data, gun ownership, Guns, new gun owners
I was excited, initially, when I found yet another recently published scholarly article on the COVID-19 pandemic gun buying spree of 2020. I have already noted an interesting study that uses NICS data to highlight how the COVID spree differs from other spikes in gun...
