{"id":74147,"date":"2021-11-11T11:03:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=74147"},"modified":"2021-11-11T11:03:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T17:03:33","slug":"74147","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=74147","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve posted two of Professor Yamane’s articles here<\/a>, and here<\/a> that indicate he’s an ‘honest broker’ when it comes to his research. Seems some others have noticed it as well.<\/p>\n

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Wake Forest Professor Views Recent Gun Buying In Interesting Way<\/a><\/p>\n

It seems that every time we see any research about guns, it\u2019s focused on negative things. There\u2019s very little research that seems to look at guns from a positive standpoint, and that is why a lot of gun rights advocates look at researches in an adversarial manner. After all, when you set yourself up in opposition to a deeply held principle, what do you expect?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s something that is going to play on people\u2019s minds as researchers look at the surge in gun buying over the last two years. After all, more and more people are buying guns and a lot of folks want to know why.<\/p>\n

A researcher at Wake Forest University, though, says he\u00a0starts from a different place<\/a>\u00a0than many of his colleagues.<\/p>\n

Sociology professor David Yamane is unique among social scientists in understanding American gun culture on its own terms, from the inside out, especially the normality of gun ownership and use for individuals with diverse religious, racial, gender, and sexual identities.\u2026<\/p>\n

Why are people buying more guns?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the past half-century, the center of gravity of America\u2019s historic gun culture has evolved from hunting and recreational shooting to armed self-defense. This can be seen in the liberalization of concealed carry laws, the changes in gun advertisements, and in the many new products and services offered to satisfy the self-defense market.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yamane isn\u2019t wrong here. Whereas guns were once predominantly about hunting and plinking, now guns are focused primarily on self-defense. Hunting is still a large segment of the market, sure, but most hunters also buy self-defense weapons why a number of those focused on self-defense have little interest in hunting.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interestingly, Yamane\u2019s answer is devoid of a lot of what we typically hear.\u00a0There\u2019s no talk of fear or paranoia or racism in Yamane\u2019s claim, that\u2019s likely because Yamane starts at a different place when it comes to guns.<\/p>\n

What makes your research on guns unique?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have spent more than 10 years studying guns in America. I\u2019m able to speak to individuals and organizations across the spectrum of opinions on guns. My work begins with the foundational premise that guns are normal and normal people use guns. This is a dramatic departure from standard social scientific approaches that view gun owners as deviant and focus exclusively on negative outcomes associated with guns such as crime, injury and death.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, basically, Yamane admits what we already suspect, that most supposed gun researchers think we\u2019re deviants to some degree and simply don\u2019t care to look at how guns are beneficial.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He does things differently, which is why he\u2019s not tripping over himself to make the case that a surge in gun buying is because of people being afraid of everything.<\/p>\n

Now, I do think people being scared has driven a lot to buy guns. That\u2019s not a controversial position in and of itself. Some may make the claim that it\u2019s driven by racism\u2013\u201cOh, you\u2019re afraid of all those black people might come and kill you, aren\u2019t you?\u201d\u2013but people being concerned for their own safety makes sense.<\/p>\n

Yet without research showing that, I suspect Yamane isn\u2019t interested in speculating.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, he also points out that while gun buying has increased year after year, violent crime rates fluctuate, showing that the prevalence of firearms alone simply cannot account for the violent crime rate being what it is year over year. There has to be more going on.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frankly, he\u2019s right and it\u2019s nice to see someone in academia that doesn\u2019t treat gun owners like villains.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve posted two of Professor Yamane’s articles here, and here that indicate he’s an ‘honest broker’ when it comes to his research. Seems some others have noticed it as well. Wake Forest Professor Views Recent Gun Buying In Interesting Way It seems that every time we see any research about guns, it\u2019s focused on negative … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74151,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74147\/revisions\/74151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}