by David Yamane | Apr 3, 2020 | Personal Protection
It’s no secret that the coronavirus led to an unprecedented rise in gun background checks in March 2020. I posted about the coronavirus supplanting Barack Obama as the greatest gun salesman in US history, and reiterated this in a brief interview with Axios...
by David Yamane | Mar 24, 2020 | COVID19, Personal Protection
Barack Obama has apparently met his match as the “greatest gun salesman in American history.” On Sunday, an acquaintance from my years wandering around American gun culture messaged me to say that he had not seen a gun buying response like this one in some...
by David Yamane | Mar 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
When I launched this blog in February 2019, I noted that no one had (yet) systematically studied people who are gun curious. The Pew Research Center’s 2017 report, “America’s Complex Relationship With Guns,” offers some important leads, though. Instead of simply...
by David Yamane | Mar 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Most times I offer my Sociology of Guns seminar, I require students to obtain “permission of instructor” prior to enrolling. I do this for three main reasons. First, many students (like many sociologists and some of the public) assume that “of...
by David Yamane | Mar 12, 2020 | Gun Culture, gun safety, National Rifle Association
Motivated by those who would reduce gun culture in the United States to the National Rifle Association (NRA), I have tried as much as possible to think and write about gun culture without paying too much attention to the NRA. In fact, when I sent out a book proposal a...
