by David Yamane | Dec 2, 2019 | Advertising, Gun Culture
I realized recently that I never posted the published version of my work analyzing gun advertisements in The American Rifleman. It documents the decline of “Gun Culture 1.0” themes of hunting and recreational/sport shooting and rise of “Gun Culture...
by David Yamane | Nov 26, 2019 | academic bias, Gun Culture, publication
A couple of years ago, I was asked to write the concluding chapter to a book called Understanding America’s Gun Culture. My chapter would be titled, “What’s Next?” Unfortunately, chapters in edited scholarly books are where ideas go to die. As one scholar put it:...
by David Yamane | Nov 16, 2019 | art, law enforcement, police
While in San Francisco for the American Society of Criminology meetings this week, my sister sent me an Instagram post by the anonymous graffiti artist BiP (“Believe in People”). It unveiled an eight story tall mural he recently completed in the Hayes...
by David Yamane | Oct 16, 2019 | academic bias
In my previous post about anti-gun biases that pop up all too frequently in scholarly studies of guns, I highlighted a passage that appeared for no good reason in a recent book I reviewed, Guns in Law: A gun “makes a little man feel big, a stupid man feel clever, a...
by David Yamane | Oct 5, 2019 | academic bias, Law
I was recently asked to review Guns in Law (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019), for CHOICE, a monthly publication of the Association of College & Research Libraries designed to help librarians decide which books to add to their collections. I was excited to...
