HeyJaredLight Over Heat with Professor David Yamane
I study, write, and speak about our fascinating, exasperating social world -- gun culture currently -- trying to bring more insight than animosity. Light Over Heat!
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Are You a Lumper or a Splitter? (opens the original)
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As noted yesterday, in my Sociology of Guns seminar we considered the question: Who owns how many guns in the United States? In my last post, I took up the issue of “how many?” Here I want to look ever so briefly at the “who?”Briefly because I and others have written so much about this already. And a general point I try to make when talking about the who of gun ownership is: there’s more than one way to slice the data pie.The Yale sociologist Nicholas Christakis has drawn on an idea from Charles
How Do You Count Guns When No One Is Keeping Track? (opens the original)
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In my Sociology of Guns seminar last week, we considered the question: Who owns how many guns in the United States?It’s not an easy question to answer because there is no registry of firearms here. This was actually a source of concern for some of my students. We considered a few reasons why, including that there is no registry of people exercising other rights specified in the Bill of Rights (e.g., religion, speech, assembly) and the fear of government confiscation of firearms as evidenced by t
Guns Cloud People’s Thinking (opens the original)
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Malcolm Gladwell is making the rounds in elite cultural circles like The Atlantic and The New Yorker, hyping his new book, The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic. I haven’t seen the book yet. It will be published next week. But based on the interviews and reviews I’ve read, one of Gladwell’s frames for the book is “dishonest conversations.” As someone who has committed a great deal of time and ene
“My Opinion Has Become More Complicated” (opens the original)
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This is the fourth and, as of now, last student gun range field trip reflection essay from my fall 2026 Sociology of Guns seminar. You can find the assignment students are responding to here, and the other reflection essays here: Reflection #1, <a href="https://lightoverheat.substack.com/p/the-smell-re
“I Started to Question How This Is Not More Regulated” (opens the original)
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This is the third of an uncertain number of student gun range field trip reflection essays from my fall 2026 Sociology of Guns seminar. You can find the assignment students are responding to here, and the other reflection essays here: Reflection #1 and <a href="https://lightoverheat.substack.com/p/the-
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