by David Yamane | May 18, 2023 | California, Gun Culture, My Experience, Open Source Shooting Sports, Trish Sargentini
“It’s fun. It’s a sport. And it’s a skill.” Participant in Open Source Shooting Sports range event It’s no secret that early in my research on American gun culture, I took Michael Bane’s idea of a Gun Culture 2.0 and brought...
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 | 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 26, 2023 | 97Percent, Gun Culture, gun politics, My Experience, Podcast, The Republican Professor
Can we use the social media echo chamber to escape the echo chambers we all live in? I try to do this by maintaining an ideologically diverse set of friends and followers on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. I am also fortunate to be asked to speak about guns by...
by David Yamane | Feb 13, 2023 | Gun Culture, gun violence prevention, Lutheran Ethicists' Network, My Experience, publication
UPDATE: This article was published online in the open-access Journal of Lutheran Ethics back in April(!). As I discussed recently, I had the opportunity to share my views on American gun culture and gun violence at the 31st annual gathering of the Lutheran...
