by David Yamane | Mar 30, 2022 | Brian Hill, Light Over Heat, My Experience, Personal Protection, The Complete Combatant, Tim Larkin
In Light Over Heat Ep 12, I talked about how violence can be virtuous and my life-altering realization that I might need to use it to protect my children or myself. A commentator on that video distinguished between violence being virtuous and violence being desirable....
by David Yamane | Mar 23, 2022 | Light Over Heat, My Experience, Personal Protection
In Light Over Heat Ep 11, I mentioned that some people address their needs via outsourcing, including outsourcing their violence to others like the police. Related to this is the fact that there are many people who have little-to-no direct experience using violence....
by David Yamane | Feb 18, 2022 | Data, gender, Guns, Personal Protection, race, scholarship, social class
Last year I was invited to contribute to a special issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science by the editors Cassandra Crifasi, Jennifer Dineen, and Kerri Raissian. The theme of this issue is “Gun Violence in American: What Works and...
by David Yamane | Feb 2, 2022 | Concealed Carry Revolution, Gun Culture, Gun Culture 2.0, Light Over Heat, Permitless Carry, Personal Protection
In last week’s video on Gun Culture 2.0, I mentioned the “Concealed Carry Revolution” as establishing an important aspect of the legal environment within which people practice armed self-defense today. In this fifth “Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane” video,...
by David Yamane | Oct 8, 2021 | Books, Concealed Carry Revolution, gun rights, Personal Protection
I am very happy to announce that the Updated Edition of my small (92 page) book on the history and current status of concealed carry laws in the United States is now fully available online via Amazon. This includes the paperback with free 2-day Prime shipping for...
by David Yamane | Oct 7, 2021 | COVID19, diversity, Gun Culture, gun sales, new gun owners, Outdoor Writers Association of America, Personal Protection
I was fortunate to be asked to present on “Guns in America” at the annual conference of the Outdoor Writers Association of America yesterday (6 October 2021). I discussed “Gun Culture 2.0 and the Changing Face of Gun Owners in America.” I was fairly certain that the...
