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 | Nov 2, 2022 | accidental injury, Data, Gun Culture 2.0, homicide, Light Over Heat, public health, Risk, suicide
This video continues my ongoing series systematizing the dominant academic approach to understanding Gun Culture 2.0, what I call “The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership.” Here I engage the 4th of the model’s 5 points: Based on...
by David Yamane | Oct 26, 2022 | accidental injury, Data, Gun Culture 2.0, homicide, Light Over Heat, public health, Risk, suicide
This video continues last week’s video on how scholars, especially public health scholars, see guns as adding to the risk of negative outcomes. This is part of my ongoing series systematizing the dominant academic approach to understanding Gun Culture 2.0, what I call...
by David Yamane | Oct 19, 2022 | accidental injury, Data, Gun Culture 2.0, homicide, Light Over Heat, public health, Risk, suicide
This video continues my series systematizing the dominant academic approach to understanding Gun Culture 2.0, what I call “The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership.” The model has 6 points, and in this 3rd video, I discuss point 3:...
by David Yamane | Apr 26, 2022 | accidental injury, Data, firearm injury, gun violence prevention, Guns, homicide, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, suicide
In a recent post, I was critical of a publication in the New England Journal of Medicine called “Crossing Lines–A Change in the Leading Cause of Death among U.S. Children.” Despite the title focusing attention on “children,” the data...
by David Yamane | Aug 3, 2021 | gun rights, injury, Rob Pincus, Sociology of Guns Seminar, suicide
With Module 8 the course shifts its attention to what could generally be called negative outcomes with firearms: injury and death, both suicide (Module 8) and homicide (Module 9), as well as issues surrounding police use of force (Module 10). I am particularly...
