by David Yamane | May 31, 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...
by David Yamane | May 10, 2023 | crime, Everytown, Gun Owners Radio, Law, Light Over Heat, Personal Protection, Stand Your Ground, The Hill
This week on my “Light Over Heat” YouTube channel, I address the idea that people can or should “shoot first and ask questions later.” It’s sad that I have to point out that this is garbage, but it seems I do. It is extremely frustrating for me to see people (1) treat...
by David Yamane | May 3, 2023 | book publishing, Guns, Light Over Heat, My Experience
What was supposed to be a brief hiatus from my “Light Over Heat” YouTube channel almost became permanent. This video explains why. A lot of it had to do with my feeling like I was talking into a void, and a lot of that feeling had to do with negative...
by David Yamane | Apr 26, 2023 | crime, Fear, Guns, Light Over Heat, My Experience
I have been on a 5-month hiatus from my “Light Over Heat” YouTube channel and seriously thought about not coming back. (More on that in a later video.) But seeing the frustration and fatigue in my son while talking about all of the recent shootings in America (Kansas...
by David Yamane | Mar 8, 2023 | American Academy for the Advancement of Science, Data, diversity, Gun Culture, Light Over Heat
I have presented my work dozens of times in the 30 years since my first academic conference presentation in 1992. I had never missed a scheduled presentation until this year, when I could not attend a session (organized by Nicholas Buttrick and including Tara Warner...
by David Yamane | Nov 16, 2022 | Guns, Light Over Heat, My Experience, Saint Anselm College, scholarship
This video offers an overview of the 14 papers presented at a workshop on “The Ethics, Law, and Social Science of Firearms and Self-Defense” convened by the Center for Ethics in Society at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH. Out of respect for the privacy of the...
