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 | Apr 6, 2022 | Guns, Homo Sapiens Projectile Club, human-weapon relationship, Light Over Heat, My Experience, Randy Miyan, Top Shot
In Light Over Heat Ep 11, I wore a Homo Sapiens Projectile Club t-shirt. You can buy the t-shirt or hoodie in the Liberal Gun Owners online store. The idea underlying the t-shirt can be found in Pillar 1 of The Liberal Gun Owners Lens. This is the first of 4 planned...
by David Yamane | Feb 8, 2022 | Gun Culture, human-weapon relationship, LGO Lens, Liberal Gun Club, liberals, Randy Miyan
Recently, without fanfare equivalent to its significance, the Liberal Gun Owners launched a new website, LGO Lens. The site is a content hub on which people can access blog posts, learn more about the LGO and allied organizations, link to the Liberal Gun Owners Lens...
by David Yamane | Dec 16, 2021 | John Johnston, Melody Lauer, Randy Miyan, Rob Pincus, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
As noted earlier, the final assignment of the semester in my Sociology of Guns seminar is for the students to write an essay reflecting on their personal experience with and understanding of guns in light of what they learned in the course. Here is the third of...
by David Yamane | Dec 14, 2021 | Craig Douglas, Randy Miyan, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
As noted yesterday, the final assignment of the semester in my Sociology of Guns seminar is for the students to write an essay reflecting on their personal experience with and understanding of guns in light of what they learned in the course. Here is the first of...
by David Yamane | Dec 13, 2021 | Craig Douglas, John Johnston, Melody Lauer, Randy Miyan, Rob Pincus, sociology, Sociology of Guns Seminar, Student Writing, Wake Forest University
Another year of Sociology of Guns at Wake Forest University is in the books. This is the 7th time in 7 years I have taught the course. COVID made some things different this semester. In fall 2020, I taught the course online. I was happy to be able to meet this...
