by David Yamane | Mar 2, 2022 | Guns, lethality, Light Over Heat, Open Source Defense, Tom Givens
People in the gun culture often talk about guns as tools, and those outside gun culture reject the idea that guns are just another tool. As is often the case with guns, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. In Episode 9 of “Light Over Heat,” I argue that guns are...
by David Yamane | Feb 23, 2022 | Brady United Against Gun Violence, gun safety, Light Over Heat, Rob Pincus, safe storage, staging firearms
As with gun safety, safe storage of firearms is something that people on all sides of the Great Gun Debates in America agree is important. But the way some gun violence prevention organizations, like Brady United Against Gun Violence in the “End Family Fire”...
by David Yamane | Feb 16, 2022 | gun safety, Light Over Heat
Gun safety is something that people on all sides of the Great Gun Debates in America agree is important. But I find different understandings of “safety” in play when people discuss guns. As I have noted previously, people within the gun culture tend to focus on safety...
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 | Feb 2, 2022 | Concealed Carry Revolution, Gun Culture, Gun Culture 2.0, Light Over Heat, Permitless Carry, Personal Protection
In last week’s video on Gun Culture 2.0, I mentioned the “Concealed Carry Revolution” as establishing an important aspect of the legal environment within which people practice armed self-defense today. In this fifth “Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane” video,...
by David Yamane | Jan 26, 2022 | diversity, Gun Culture, Gun Culture 2.0, Light Over Heat
In this fourth “Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane” video I discuss the concept of Gun Culture 2.0, the self-defense core of American gun culture today. I have been developing the concept and studying the phenomenon for over 10 years now, posting hundreds of...
