by David Yamane | Jul 31, 2020 | Books, COVID19, gender, Gun Culture, Personal Protection, race, review, settler colonialism, sexuality
I have been very fortunate that my job has not been adversely affected in a major way by the COVID19 pandemic this year. Which is not to say that it has been completely unaffected. The already inadequate amount of funding I receive from Wake Forest to conduct my...
by David Yamane | Jun 6, 2020 | COVID19, Duke Center for Firearms Law, gun safety, gun sales, Guns
I was privileged to be invited recently to contribute to an ongoing series of videos produced by the Duke Center for Firearms Law on COVID-19 and guns. I was asked to speak about my approach to studying guns, to speculate about why people are buying guns during the...
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...