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 | May 12, 2023 | crime, good guys with guns, Law, negative outcomes, Personal Protection, responsible gun owners
I’ve been spending more time than I would like to recently addressing gun owners shooting people for (seemingly) no good reason. After the recent “hide-and-seek” shooting in Louisiana, I thought about an opinion essay I wrote last summer on why I...
by David Yamane | Apr 16, 2023 | Data, Global Burden of Disease, Guns, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, negative outcomes, suicide
Yesterday I explored America’s violent exceptionalism by looking at homicide data for the 38 member nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) collected by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Today I want to...
by David Yamane | Apr 15, 2023 | Data, Global Burden of Disease, Guns, homicide, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, negative outcomes
Lately, I have been working on the chapter of my book on American gun culture that explores negative outcomes with firearms. Although I differ from most scholars studying guns by beginning not with gun deviance but with the normality of guns and gun owners, I do take...
by David Yamane | Apr 14, 2023 | accidental injury, Data, Global Burden of Disease, Guns, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, negative outcomes, Risk
Lately, I have been working on the chapter of my book on American gun culture that explores negative outcomes with firearms. Although I differ from most scholars studying guns by beginning not with gun deviance but with the normality of guns and gun owners, I do take...
