by David Yamane | Apr 27, 2022 | Jonathan Metzl, Light Over Heat, My Experience, negative outcomes, Risk, Will Petty
The idea that guns are a risk factor – for homicide, suicide, accidental death, and injury – was a central idea at the gun violence prevention writers workshop I attended in Hartford earlier this month (see Light Over Heat #15 and Light Over Heat #16). This week I...
by David Yamane | Jan 12, 2022 | Data, Gun Culture, gun ownership, Guns, guns are normal, Light Over Heat, negative outcomes
In this first “Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane” video I take up the question, “Just how normal are guns and gun owners, anyway?” Drawing on data on negative outcomes with guns as a proportion of the total number of guns owned in the US (400 million), the...
by David Yamane | Oct 22, 2020 | Claude Werner, Data, homicide, Michael Soldini, negative outcomes, Rob Pincus, Sociology of Guns Seminar, suicide, Walk the Talk America
Although my scholarship and teaching on the sociology of guns highlights the non-criminological and epidemiological aspects of guns in society, I do not entirely ignore negative outcomes with guns. In my Sociology of Guns seminar, I typically allocate 2 or 3 of the...
by Grant Cunningham | Aug 7, 2019 | awareness, gun safety, Holster & Carry Methods, Incident Analysis, Legal Issues, negative outcomes, Personal Safety, Prepping, reading list, realistic, Training & Teaching
Welcome to your Hump Day Reading List! This is your refuge from the impersonal Google and FaceBook algorithms that seem to run our lives these days. Instead of a machine deciding what you’ll see, I personally go out and look for great articles that have value...
by Grant Cunningham | Jul 31, 2019 | awareness, Incident Analysis, Legal Issues, mythbusting, negative outcomes, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, Prepping, reading list, realistic, Training & Teaching, Unarmed Defense
Welcome to your Hump Day Reading List! This is your refuge from the impersonal Google and FaceBook algorithms that seem to run our lives these days. Instead of a machine deciding what you’ll see, I personally go out and look for great articles that have value...
by Grant Cunningham | Jul 24, 2019 | awareness, Incident Analysis, negative outcomes, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, Prepping, reading list, realistic, Training & Teaching, Unarmed Defense
Welcome to the Hump Day Reading List! Here are what I believe to be the three most important articles you can read this week to enhance your personal and family safety: This week in Defense and Training: The defensive value of imagination In all...
