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David Yamane
@davidyamane
GUN CURIOUS book forthcoming in June 2024. Light Over Heat on YouTube. Gun Culture 2.0 blog. Sociologist at Wake Forest University.
Jun 23, 2022 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
🧵 Lot of interest in gun raffles these days. I was interviewed yday by @wsoctv in CLT about one for a youth baseball team in Bessemer City, NC. It was a very brief story so here are some addtl thoughts.

#guns #ar15 #assaultweapon #glock #raffle #clt

wsoctv.com/news/local/bes… (1) Raffles are legal. Guns are legal. Combing the two is legal. All legitimate gun raffles, including the one in NC, require winners to pass a background check in order to take possession of the gun.
Jun 20, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: "One of the strange things about the reaction to the invasion of the Capitol was how few of those dismayed by it speculated that they might one day long for just such an assault to succeed. . ."

What are you willing to do? lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/… "Might a different mob storm into Congress to save democracy, rather than attack it? If an autocrat who has stolen an election is about to have his trashing of American democracy hallowed by Congress, all other recourse having failed, shouldn’t Democrats . . ."
Jun 4, 2022 • 46 tweets • 19 min read
Was asked to review this but have been putting it off. I am more worried about what it will say about me as a person and scholar than what I have to say about it. But I need a break this morning so here I go.

#soctwitter #BookTwitter #bookreview #bellah Image Enjoying this biography of Bellah by Matteo Bortolini of the U of Padua. It's very well written for a sociologist, much less one who I assume is not a native English speaker. It is a full biography not just an intellectual biography.
Feb 8, 2022 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
🧵Attempting again to harvest sources on gun violence for my contribution to this special issue of The ANNALS. Unlike the other contributors, I am a scholar of guns, not gun violence, so I don't immediately know the state of the art on adverse outcomes. 1/n My contribution focuses on the rise of Gun Culture 2.0, the self-defense core of American gun culture today. But I also want to engage what I call "The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership." 2/n
Dec 22, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Excited that results from the 2021 National Firearms Survey are now being published so we can know more about the dimensions of firearms purchasing in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic.

acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2… I'm not a survey methodologist but I like the opt-in panel design as the response rates seem much better than random digit dialing or mail-back surveys I have seen recently, whose response rates seem to be tanking.

ipsos.com/en-us/solution…
Nov 8, 2021 • 59 tweets • 14 min read
Getting a haircut and a little light reading. Been hearing good things from reform minded NRA members about this book by @timkmak

#nra Image Mak begins with a claim he has made before, no better documented here than elsewhere, that the NRA is "America's most powerful advocacy group." A well-reported book doesn't need this kind of unsubstantiated hyperbole. Just say the NRA is powerful. This is undisputed #nra #misfire Image