by David Yamane | Feb 7, 2021 | Gun Culture, Guns, My Experience
Yesterday was the second anniversary of this blog. I began Gun Curious as a complement to my longer-running Gun Culture 2.0 blog because I wanted an outlet for my observations on guns and gun culture that would be of interest to those who simply wanted to know or...
by David Yamane | Feb 5, 2021 | COVID19, diversity, Gun Culture, gun ownership, Guns, My Experience, new gun owners
Late in 2020 an editor from the online magazine Discourse contacted me to see if I wanted to write anything about my work on American gun culture for them. The invitation provided an excellent opportunity for me to formalize some of my scattered thoughts on the Great...
by David Yamane | Jan 25, 2021 | Advertising, Data, gender, Gun Culture, The American Rifleman, women
TLDR: I just posted a publicly-accessible pre-print of a book chapter, “A Woman’s Place in Gun Advertisements: The American Rifleman, 1920-2019,” co-authored with recent Wake Forest University graduate (and current George Washington University Law...
by David Yamane | Jan 14, 2021 | Books, Buy Me A Coffee, Concealed Carry Revolution, Gun Culture, My Experience, Teespring
I am trying to break the grip the current moment has on my attention, and thought a good way to do that would be to have a brief look at my year ahead. For the spring semester, I am on a research leave, meaning I am excused from my normal teaching and service...
by David Yamane | Jan 13, 2021 | Donald Trump, Firmin DeBrabander, Gun Culture, gun rights, insurrection, The Atlantic
In the wake of the invasion of the U.S. Capitol Building last week by supporters of President Donald Trump, philosopher Firmin DeBrabander (author of Do Guns Make Us Free? Democracy and the Armed Society) pointed a finger in The Atlantic at the gun rights movement,...
by David Yamane | Jan 12, 2021 | Gun Culture, My Experience
Although 2020 presented some unprecedented challenges, I managed to have some successes along the way. I published two scholarly articles on guns. The first, “Targeted Advertising: Documenting the Emergence of Gun Culture 2.0 in Guns Magazine, 1955–2019,” was a...
