by David Yamane | Dec 20, 2021 | Boston Review, Chad Kautzer, Gun Culture, Guns, race
Below you will find a comment written by one of the authors whose work I criticized in a recent post, philosopher Chad Kautzer. Because many people miss (or actively avoid reading) the comments, I offered to move his comments to a free-standing post as a reply to my...
by David Yamane | Dec 18, 2021 | gender, Gun Culture, militarization, race, vigilantism
I confess to not being a regular reader of the Boston Review but my Google alert this morning for both “gun owners” and “gun culture” pointed me to a recent essay published by political philosopher Chad Kautzer, “America as a Tactical Gun...
by David Yamane | Dec 4, 2021 | Books, Gun Culture, Gun Culture 2.0, publication
As mentioned the other day, I have finally gotten the pitch for my book on Gun Culture 2.0 into the hands of some literary agents. Now the waiting game begins. In the mean time, below you will find the provisional table of contents for the book to whet your appetite....
by David Yamane | Dec 2, 2021 | Chris Cheng, David French, Gun Culture, Kyle Rittenhouse, Podcast, Stephen Gutowski, Tim Mak
In his excellent book, The Gun Gap, political scientist Mark Joslyn highlights the ways in which gun owners and non-owners live in very different social worlds. For example, non-owners are much more likely than owners to say none of their friends own guns....
by David Yamane | Nov 30, 2021 | Books, Gun Culture, My Experience, publication
I stepped out of the social media fray for a few days this past weekend to commemorate the moment when my wife Sandy and I committed our lives to each other at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC in 2013. But I didn’t stop working on my book, provisionally titled...
by David Yamane | Oct 7, 2021 | COVID19, diversity, Gun Culture, gun sales, new gun owners, Outdoor Writers Association of America, Personal Protection
I was fortunate to be asked to present on “Guns in America” at the annual conference of the Outdoor Writers Association of America yesterday (6 October 2021). I discussed “Gun Culture 2.0 and the Changing Face of Gun Owners in America.” I was fairly certain that the...
