by David Yamane | Jul 29, 2021 | African Americans, Gun Culture, gun ownership, race, Wake Forest University
I was recently querying Academic Twitter about peer-reviewed social scientific publications on non-deviant African American gun owners to assign in the module on race in my Sociology of Guns seminar (more on that module forthcoming). I was disheartened but not...
by David Yamane | Jun 23, 2021 | Data, Gun Culture, gun ownership, LGBT, publication, Sociological Perspectives, sociology
For the past 18 months, I have been co-editing, with Trent Steidley of the University of Denver, a special issue of the scholarly journal, Sociological Perspectives. The theme is “A Sociology of Firearms for the 21st Century.” A major goal we had in...
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 | Dec 31, 2020 | Data, Gun Culture, gun ownership, liberals, Sociological Inquiry, sociology
Early in 2020 I wrote an entry on this blog asking “Who are the liberal gun owners?” I was responding to media interest in liberals who own guns in an election year. In response to an inquiry from the Associated Press, I did some quick and dirty analyses...
by David Yamane | Nov 14, 2020 | COVID19, Data, gun ownership, Guns, new gun owners
I was excited, initially, when I found yet another recently published scholarly article on the COVID-19 pandemic gun buying spree of 2020. I have already noted an interesting study that uses NICS data to highlight how the COVID spree differs from other spikes in gun...
by David Yamane | Nov 13, 2020 | COVID19, Data, George Floyd, gun ownership, Guns
The COVID-19 pandemic compounded by the George Floyd protests and riots mixed with the boogaloo/CW2/Great Awakening V leading up to a hotly contested presidential election created a literally unprecedented gun buying spree in 2020. This post collects various blog...
