by Kyle | Jun 26, 2023 | 2nd Amendment, gun policy, gun politics, gun rights, gun safety, gun violence prevention, guns are normal, LGC Blog, Press Release, Root Cause Mitigation
Several groups including the Michigan Chapter of the Liberal Gun Club, working with Progress MI, developed a root cause mitigation platform to address all forms of violent crime by addressing the various causes of crime instead of infringing upon the Constitutionally...
by David Yamane | Apr 6, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Google Bard, Gun Culture, guns are normal
The Dana Carvey SNL character “Grumpy Old Man” has always been a favorite of mine, especially the tagline, “I like things the way they used to be.” Now, I am not a full-on Luddite when it comes to technology. I got my first computer (Apple IIc)...
by David Yamane | Jun 2, 2022 | Data, Gun Culture, guns are normal, Pew Resarch Center, Shooting
In his excellent book, The Gun Gap, political scientist Mark Joslyn highlights the ways in which gun owners and non-owners live in very different social worlds. For example, non-owners are much more likely than owners to say none of their friends own guns....
by David Yamane | Jan 19, 2022 | Data, diversity, gender, gun ownership, Guns, guns are normal, Light Over Heat, National Firearms Survey, race
In this third “Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane” video I explore what two 2021 National Firearms Surveys tell us about the diverse and changing face of gun owners today. The first survey, Georgetown business professor William English’s 2021 National...
by David Yamane | Jan 12, 2022 | Data, gun ownership, Guns, guns are normal, Light Over Heat, National Firearms Survey
In this second “Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane” video I think about the importance of big denominators in understanding guns and gun owners in the United States, and explain why surveys tend to underestimate the rate of gun ownership. Accounting for...
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...
