by David Yamane | May 11, 2022 | Gun Culture, Light Over Heat, My Experience, The ANNALS, UCONN-Hartford
In Light Over Heat videos #15 (on gun research and gun policy) and #16 (on finding common ground on gun violence), I shared my thoughts on a workshop I attended in March at UCONN-Hartford. The workshop brought together authors contributing to an issue of The ANNALS of...
by David Yamane | May 4, 2022 | Gun Culture, Light Over Heat, Newsy
I was pleased that the online streaming news network “Newsy” asked to interview me for their nightly program “The Why.” They wanted to address the question, “Why is gun culture so prominent in the U.S.?” I thought the introductory package they put together was pretty...
by David Yamane | Apr 15, 2022 | Gun Culture, Liberal Gun Club, Podcast
The animating idea of this blog is to speak (primarily) to those who are neither totally bought into the idea of guns nor totally opposed to it. That is, to the gun curious. I recently had the opportunity to chat with just such a person. Mark McNease is a politically...
by David Yamane | Apr 12, 2022 | Gun Culture, Hunting, My Experience, Outdoor Writers Association of America, Podcast, religion, Reverend Hunter, Tony Jones
In October 2021, I traveled from North Carolina to Vermont to attend and present at the Outdoor Writers Association of America’s (OWAA) annual conference. After flying into Burlington, I had a 90-minute long shuttle bus ride to the Jay Peak Resort, near the...
by David Yamane | Mar 25, 2022 | COVID19, Data, Gun Culture, gun ownership, gun policy, National Opinion Research Center, new gun owners, race
Like many, I have been touting the changing face of gun owners, especially in connection with the great gun buying spree of 2020+. I have discussed this in Discourse Magazine in February 2021, at the Outdoor Writers Association of American annual conference in October...
by David Yamane | Feb 8, 2022 | Gun Culture, human-weapon relationship, LGO Lens, Liberal Gun Club, liberals, Randy Miyan
Recently, without fanfare equivalent to its significance, the Liberal Gun Owners launched a new website, LGO Lens. The site is a content hub on which people can access blog posts, learn more about the LGO and allied organizations, link to the Liberal Gun Owners Lens...
