by David Yamane | Sep 25, 2023 | Fear, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
This is the eighth of many student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2023 Sociology of Guns seminar (see Reflection #1, Reflection #2, Reflection #3, Reflection #4, Reflection #5, Reflection #6, and Reflection #7). The assignment to which students...
by David Yamane | Jun 21, 2023 | culture of fear, Data, Fear, Light Over Heat, negative outcomes
This week’s “Light Over Heat” video explains a little trick I use to see through the fog produced by the mass-mediated culture of fear. If someone says they are “seeing more X” — where X = some negative outcome with guns — I distinguish between...
by David Yamane | Apr 26, 2023 | crime, Fear, Guns, Light Over Heat, My Experience
I have been on a 5-month hiatus from my “Light Over Heat” YouTube channel and seriously thought about not coming back. (More on that in a later video.) But seeing the frustration and fatigue in my son while talking about all of the recent shootings in America (Kansas...
by David Yamane | Apr 20, 2022 | accidental injury, Data, Fear, gun deaths, Guns, New England Journal of Medicine
In my just-released “Light Over Heat” YouTube video, I talk about how I am always looking for common ground in the great gun debates that are stalemated in America, including on gun violence prevention. This, of course, does not mean I simply accept...
