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 1, 2022 | Gun Culture, Guns, Light Over Heat
Happy New Year! I hope everyone has some good plans for 2022. Let me briefly tell you about one of mine. Although I posted nearly as many times on my two blogs (Gun Culture 2.0 and Gun Curious) in 2021 as I did in 2020 (129 posts vs. 135 posts), combined visitors to...
by David Yamane | Dec 23, 2021 | Boston Review, Chad Kautzer, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat
In approaching the scholarly literature in my Sociology of Guns seminar, I tell my students that they need to read in two steps: reading WITH the grain of a text and reading AGAINST the grain. I take these ideas from David Bartholomae and Aaron Petrosky’s Ways...
