by David Yamane | Sep 29, 2023 | AR platform rifles, mass shootings, school shootings, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, University of North Carolina, Wake Forest University
This is the eleventh of many student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2023 Sociology of Guns seminar (see Reflection #1, Reflection #2, Reflection #3, Reflection #4, Reflection #5, Reflection #6, Reflection #7, Reflection #8, Reflection #9, and...
by David Yamane | Apr 18, 2023 | Asian Americans, Chris Cheng, Data, Guns, Half Moon Bay, mass murder, mass public shooting, mass shootings, My Experience, race, Randy Miyan
RE-POSTING FROM MY GUN CULTURE 2.0 BLOG I am Asian-American (half Japanese-American on my father’s side) and grew up in Half Moon Bay, California. The coincidence of this with the mass murder of 7 people in Half Moon Bay by an Asian man led to a conversation recently...
by David Yamane | Feb 3, 2023 | Deseret News, mass shootings, My Experience, Utah
I wrote recently about the challenge of finding a publisher for my book on American gun culture, and my chagrin that some acquisition editors think there is not a market for a “calm, thoughtful approach to the charged topic of gun ownership” (to quote one...
by David Yamane | Feb 3, 2023 | Deseret News, mass shootings, My Experience, Utah
I wrote recently about the challenge of finding a publisher for my book on American gun culture, and my chagrin that some acquisition editors think there is not a market for a “calm, thoughtful approach to the charged topic of gun ownership” (to quote one...
by David Yamane | Sep 18, 2022 | mass shootings, school shootings, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Veterans Range, Wake Forest University
This is the third of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2022 Sociology of Guns seminar (see reflection #1 and reflection #2). The assignment to which students are responding can be found here. I am grateful to these students for their...
by David Yamane | Sep 17, 2022 | AR platform rifles, mass shootings, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Veterans Range, Wake Forest University
This is the second of several student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2022 Sociology of Guns seminar (see reflection #1). The assignment to which students are responding can be found here. I am grateful to these students for their willingness to...
