by David Yamane | Oct 11, 2020 | John Johnston, Personal Protection, Sociology of Guns Seminar
For the third consecutive year, John Johnston of Ballistic Radio and Citizens Defense Research guest lectured in my Sociology of Guns Seminar at Wake Forest University last week. Here I want to briefly summarize the ideas he shared with my students, while respecting...
by David Yamane | Jul 31, 2020 | Books, COVID19, gender, Gun Culture, Personal Protection, race, review, settler colonialism, sexuality
I have been very fortunate that my job has not been adversely affected in a major way by the COVID19 pandemic this year. Which is not to say that it has been completely unaffected. The already inadequate amount of funding I receive from Wake Forest to conduct my...
by David Yamane | Apr 3, 2020 | Personal Protection
It’s no secret that the coronavirus led to an unprecedented rise in gun background checks in March 2020. I posted about the coronavirus supplanting Barack Obama as the greatest gun salesman in US history, and reiterated this in a brief interview with Axios...
by David Yamane | Mar 24, 2020 | COVID19, Personal Protection
Barack Obama has apparently met his match as the “greatest gun salesman in American history.” On Sunday, an acquaintance from my years wandering around American gun culture messaged me to say that he had not seen a gun buying response like this one in some...
by David Yamane | Sep 12, 2019 | Law, Personal Protection, Quote of the Day
There exists a law, not written down anywhere, but inborn in our hearts, a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading, a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which...
by David Yamane | Aug 1, 2019 | John Murphy, pepper spray, Personal Protection
Even people who are avidly anti-gun recognize the value of pepper spray as a tool of personal protection. On the other side, some pro-defensive gun people ignore pepper spray thinking that the gun they carry will solve all of their problems. According to trainer John...
