by David Yamane | Jul 26, 2023 | Ashley Hlebinsky, Cody Firearms Museum, Danny Michael, Gun Culture, Guns, Light Over Heat, new gun owners, Wyoming
On my recent road trip to Wyoming, I stopped in Cody to visit the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Curator Danny Michael was good enough to give me a tour of the museum and I later went back and filmed some additional bits to create three...
by David Yamane | Jun 28, 2023 | gun violence prevention, Light Over Heat, My Experience, negative outcomes, Vail Symposium
This week’s “Light Over Heat” video offers my thoughts on the Vail Symposium Conversation on Controversial Issues I attended last week in Colorado. The topic of the conversation was gun violence and it was hosted by Clay Jenkinson, with Josh Horwitz from...
by David Yamane | Jun 21, 2023 | culture of fear, Data, Fear, Light Over Heat, negative outcomes
This week’s “Light Over Heat” video explains a little trick I use to see through the fog produced by the mass-mediated culture of fear. If someone says they are “seeing more X” — where X = some negative outcome with guns — I distinguish between...
by David Yamane | Jun 14, 2023 | Duke Center for Firearms Law, Law, Light Over Heat, My Experience, Wyoming Firearms Research Center
In this week’s “Light Over Heat” video, I talk about attending a University of Wyoming School of Law Firearms Research Center and Duke University Center for Firearms Law works-in-progress workshop at Texas A&M Law School in Fort Worth. I benefitted...
by David Yamane | Jun 7, 2023 | Gun Culture, gun ownership, gun safety, Light Over Heat, mental health, new gun owners, Walk the Talk America
A colleague of mine, David Zehrung, is a psychologist practicing in Pennsylvania. He will be speaking this month to the Pennsylvania Psychological Association about firearms. He asked me to provide a 3-minute overview of what I’d like psychologists to know about gun...
by David Yamane | Jun 1, 2023 | democracy, Gun Culture, Harel Shapira, Light Over Heat, New York Times, Personal Protection, Wake Forest University
On my “Light Over Heat” YouTube channel this week, I discuss sociologist Harel Shapira’s opinion essay, “Firearms Taught Me, and America, a Very Dangerous Lesson,” published in the New York Times on 16 May 2023 (gift link here should take you behind the NYT paywall if...
