by David Yamane | Feb 18, 2022 | Data, gender, Guns, Personal Protection, race, scholarship, social class
Last year I was invited to contribute to a special issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science by the editors Cassandra Crifasi, Jennifer Dineen, and Kerri Raissian. The theme of this issue is “Gun Violence in American: What Works and...
by David Yamane | Feb 9, 2022 | AR platform rifles, Data, Guns, large-capacity magazines, Light Over Heat, National Firearms Survey, William English
In Episode 3 of “Light Over Heat,” I mentioned a 2021 National Firearms Survey by Georgetown University Professor William English. In Episode 6, I discuss a couple of interesting findings in that survey. Among the unique qualities of Professor English’s National...
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...
by David Yamane | Jan 2, 2022 | Gun Culture, Guns, My Experience, Year in Review
I launched this blog in February 2019 because my Gun Culture 2.0 blog has come to be read almost exclusively by people who are invested in gun culture. Although they are an important audience for my work, I also want to translate what I am learning about guns to the...
