by David Yamane | Jun 22, 2022 | Ackerman-McQueen, Defensive Gun Use, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat, National Rifle Association, Texas
NOTE: An earlier, abbreviated version of this text appeared as an opinion essay in the Charlotte Observer/Raleigh News & Observer on June 16, 2022. I am a defensive gun owner and a sociologist who has been studying American gun culture for a decade now. One of the...
by David Yamane | Jun 15, 2022 | Guns, Law, liberals, Light Over Heat, Texas, Uvalde
Like many Americans, I reluctantly watched events unfolding recently at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, site of the NRA’s annual meeting. In our polarized gun debates, the two extremes were on full display, literally divided by Avenida De Las...
by David Yamane | Jun 8, 2022 | Ahmaud Arbery, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat, race, racism
This week’s episode features audio of comments I made for the Liberal Gun Owners Lens Podcast series on the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. I try to recognize both the importance of understanding race/racism in American history, and hence gun culture historically, and also...
by David Yamane | Jun 1, 2022 | diversity, Jonathan Haidt, Light Over Heat, My Experience, scholarship, The ANNALS
In my last video (Light Over Heat #22), I reflected on the value of diversity (political, cultural, social, intellectual) in exposing us to people different from us and ideas different from our own. From these differences can come greater understanding. I applied this...
by David Yamane | May 31, 2022 | Gun Culture, gun rights, Light Over Heat, mass public shooting, Newsy
I was invited on Newsy’s Morning Rush to talk about American gun culture, mass shootings, and gun control in the Wake of the Uvalde shootings. As usual, I find myself trying to capture the complex reality of guns in the United States, and pointing out ways in...
by David Yamane | May 29, 2022 | Automatic Weapons, Guns, John Daub, Karl Rehn, KR Training, Light Over Heat, My Experience, Shooting, Texas
Wow, this is the 20th episode of “Light Over Heat” that I recorded! I can’t believe it. It seems like I was just recording my 10th episode not long ago. This second set of videos (Season 2) was supposed to be organized thematically around t-shirts I own. It mostly...
