by David Yamane | Jan 12, 2022 | Data, Gun Culture, gun ownership, Guns, guns are normal, Light Over Heat, negative outcomes
In this first “Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane” video I take up the question, “Just how normal are guns and gun owners, anyway?” Drawing on data on negative outcomes with guns as a proportion of the total number of guns owned in the US (400 million), the...
by David Yamane | Dec 31, 2021 | Data, Defensive Gun Use, gun ownership, Guns, National Firearms Survey, William English
A summary of results from the 2021 National Firearms Survey was posted to the SSRN site back in July. I confess to missing it the first time around because I thought it was the same National Firearms Survey that was fielded by scholars at Northeastern and Harvard...
by David Yamane | Sep 22, 2021 | gun ownership, police, race, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing
This is the sixth of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2021 Sociology of Guns seminar (see reflection #1, reflection #2, reflection #3, reflection #4, and reflection #5). The assignment to which students are responding can be found...
by David Yamane | Aug 2, 2021 | gender, gun ownership, hegemonic masculinity, LGBT, sexuality, Sociology of Guns Seminar, women
Module 6 is not covered in these posts because it is a work week for students as I will be presenting on Gun Culture 2.0 at the Outdoor Writers Association of America annual conference in Vermont that week. Recognizing that the four parts of the Holy Quaternity of...
by David Yamane | Aug 1, 2021 | African Americans, gun ownership, race, Sociology of Guns Seminar
Modules 5, 6, and 7 of Sociology of Guns focus on three of the four parts of the Holy Quaternity of sociology: race, gender, and sexuality (we touch some on social class, too). There is no shortage of writing about how gun owners are racist, but my interest in this...
by David Yamane | Jul 31, 2021 | COVID19, diversity, gun ownership, gun sales, Sociology of Guns Seminar
This module takes up the demographics of gun ownship, the Great Gun Buying Spree of 2020+, and the changing face of American gun owners. We know from many surveys over a long period of time that the statistically average legal gun owner is a middle-aged, politically...
