by David Yamane | Sep 12, 2019 | Law, Personal Protection, Quote of the Day
There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts, a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading, a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which...
by David Yamane | Sep 10, 2019 | Gun Culture, New York Times, open carry
As someone who came from completely outside gun culture and became a gun owner later in life, I have tried often to find a middle ground between culture warriors on both sides of the Great American Gun Debates. That, in fact, is one of the purposes of this blog. As I...
by David Yamane | Aug 14, 2019 | mass murder, mass public shooting, Mother Jones, Rob Pincus
***CORRECTION: A FACEBOOK READER noticed something in the Mother Jones data I presented recently that I had missed. Beginning in 2013, MJ changed their definition of a mass public shooting from 4 or more victims to 3 or more victims in 2013 (see more below), but did...
by David Yamane | Aug 7, 2019 | Gun Culture, Hunting
Whenever dramatic events happen in the US involving guns, I hear from the media. Not a ton of media, alas, since my overarching position that “guns are normal and normal people use guns” doesn’t fit most media narratives following dramatic events....
by David Yamane | Aug 6, 2019 | AR platform rifles, Jon Stokes, mass murder
The debate over civilian ownership of AR-15 platform rifles heats up every time there is a mass murder in the United States using one. Because I study gun culture, people often ask me, “Why does anyone need one of those weapons of war, anyway?” I usually...
