David Yamane is Professor of Sociology at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is a nationally recognized scholarly authority on guns in America, with a unique voice in our cacophonous debates on the subject, one that reaches audiences across the spectrum of opinion on guns. He especially seeks out opportunities to speak about and to the broad and deep middle of the American population whose views do not skew to the extreme in either direction.
Recent publications include “Gun Culture 2.0: Evolution and Contours of Defensive Gun Ownership in America,” “Understanding and Misunderstanding American Gun Culture and Violence,” and Concealed Carry Revolution: Liberalizing the Right to Bear Arms in America. His book, Gun Curious: A Journey Inside America’s Evolving Culture of Firearms, will be published in 2024.
Committed to informing public debate and enriching everyday conversations about guns, Professor Yamane shares his thoughts on this blog, as well as on his Gun Curious blog. For now, he is active on Twitter at @davidyamane and @gunculture2pt0.
In 2022, he launched a YouTube channel, “Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane,” on which he posts weekly short videos about issues related to his scholarship.
Sandra Stroud Yamane serves a variety of functions for this blog and the associated book project, including editor, proofreader, researcher, and photographer.
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