by David Yamane | Nov 11, 2020 | COVID19, Data, diversity, gun ownership, Guns, MTurk, new gun owners, Prepping
On top of the paper I wrote about last week, I have found a second scholarly publication on firearm purchasing during the COVID-19 pandemic. This one is by a group of public health scholars associated with the Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program at the...
by David Yamane | Nov 9, 2020 | gun ownership, Guns, Lara Smith, Liberal Gun Club, Sociology of Guns Seminar
With thanks to Rocket Armory for the slogan and visual, liberals own guns, too. This is a point I have made before. Approximately 20% of all gun owners in the United States — at least 12 million American adults — self-identify as liberal (compared to 36%...
by David Yamane | Oct 30, 2020 | COVID19, Data, George Floyd, gun ownership, gun sales, Guns
There has been a good deal of speculation and anec-data shared about the great gun buying spree of 2020. It is impossible to deny that something significant happened, but the extent and nature of what happened remains to be understood. Although it does not tell us...
by David Yamane | Sep 24, 2020 | gun ownership, Guns, Sociology of Guns Seminar
I have written previously about how survey research underestimates the rate of gun ownership in the United States. The main sources of “false negatives” (people who own guns but tell survey researchers they do not) are (1) people who don’t want...
by David Yamane | Sep 15, 2020 | American Journal of Public Health, Data, Gun Culture 2.0, gun ownership, new gun owners, Sociology of Guns Seminar
The great gun buying spree(s) of 2020 have raised the issue of NEW GUN OWNERS. We have no reliable data on how many of those millions of NICS checks being run this year are for people who are buying a gun for the first time. Anecdotal evidence suggests a short answer...
by David Yamane | Jun 11, 2020 | Books, emotions, Gun Culture, gun ownership, gun politics, political science
In these trying times, can we at least all agree that guns are politically polarizing in the United States? Not inherently, of course, but they get drawn up into our divisive political system and culture in a profound way. I’m pleased to share political...
