by David Yamane | Apr 18, 2023 | Asian Americans, Chris Cheng, Data, Guns, Half Moon Bay, mass murder, mass public shooting, mass shootings, My Experience, race, Randy Miyan
RE-POSTING FROM MY GUN CULTURE 2.0 BLOG I am Asian-American (half Japanese-American on my father’s side) and grew up in Half Moon Bay, California. The coincidence of this with the mass murder of 7 people in Half Moon Bay by an Asian man led to a conversation recently...
by David Yamane | Apr 17, 2023 | accidental injury, Data, Global Burden of Disease, Guns, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Risk
I have been writing quite a bit lately about negative outcomes with firearms for my book on American gun culture. As I’ve stated repeatedly state on this blog and in various publications over the years, unlike most scholars studying guns, my starting point is...
by David Yamane | Apr 16, 2023 | Data, Global Burden of Disease, Guns, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, negative outcomes, suicide
Yesterday I explored America’s violent exceptionalism by looking at homicide data for the 38 member nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) collected by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Today I want to...
by David Yamane | Apr 15, 2023 | Data, Global Burden of Disease, Guns, homicide, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, negative outcomes
Lately, I have been working on the chapter of my book on American gun culture that explores negative outcomes with firearms. Although I differ from most scholars studying guns by beginning not with gun deviance but with the normality of guns and gun owners, I do take...
by David Yamane | Apr 14, 2023 | accidental injury, Data, Global Burden of Disease, Guns, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, negative outcomes, Risk
Lately, I have been working on the chapter of my book on American gun culture that explores negative outcomes with firearms. Although I differ from most scholars studying guns by beginning not with gun deviance but with the normality of guns and gun owners, I do take...
by David Yamane | Mar 8, 2023 | American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Data, diversity, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat
I have presented my work dozens of times in the 30 years since my first academic conference presentation in 1992. I had never missed a scheduled presentation until this year, when I could not attend a session (organized by Nicholas Buttrick and including Tara Warner...
