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Enter to Win a Free Copy of Our Next Virtual Book Club Read: The Walking Wounded (LoH #155) YouTube video by Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane

Enter for a chance to win a copy of Jooyoung Lee's just-published book, The Walking Wounded: Festering and Ricocheting Trauma after Gun Violence (@UChicagoPress). Deadline 4/24 at 12:00 pm Eastern Time.

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One take: “If you don’t have guns in your network, YouTube and social media can become the entry point. And that can lead to a very concrete interest in owning a gun yourself,” says David Yamane, professor of sociology at Wake Forest University and one of the leading experts on American gun culture.

What a Danish newspaper got right about Brandon Herrera, guntubers, and American gun culture

With @stephengutowski.bsky.social of The Reload

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[507449-high-flying-kite].

Oddly symmetrical.

I trace Gun Culture 2.0 back to the 1960s forward, when local crime was surging. By 1990, it has its own momentum.

“This becomes a challenge for a lot of centrist liberals because they place a lot of faith in the state,” he adds. “Then they see what could go wrong if the state falls into the wrong hands.”

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“What has changed with Trump’s second term and the Alex Pretti incident is the idea that guns aren’t just for personal self-defense, but may also be to resist government tyranny,” says David Yamane, author of “Gun Curious: A Liberal Professor’s Surprising Journey Inside America’s Gun Culture.”

Q&A with "A Gun of Her Own: The Everyday Lives of Women Who Shoot" Author Margaret Kelley A special session of the Light Over Heat Virtual Book Club

Or if you prefer Substack: lightoverheat.substack.com/p/q-and-a-wi...

Virtual Book Club Discussion of Women and Guns with Author Margaret Kelley (Light Over Heat #154) YouTube video by Light Over Heat with Professor David Yamane

More long-form video content for the remaining few with attention spans. Interesting book club conversation with Margaret Kelley about her book, A GUN OF HER OWN: THE EVERYDAY LIVES OF WOMEN WHO SHOOT.

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Self-reflection is good, regardless of what Marc Andreessen says.

The Other 97%: My Complete BBC Interview on Guns in America What does the BBC want to know?

My complete answers to the 9 questions posed to me by the BBC World Service were posted to YouTube and Substack today (pick your poison).

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Could you or should you have known? Were there signs you didn't want to see?

Could or should you have known? I give you some grace here.

Illuminations #6. Lock, Stock, and a Lot Going On Light Over Heat March Digest

Sometimes the work of bringing light over heat happens in classrooms, sometimes on camera, and sometimes in the slow, unglamorous labor of writing a book that isn’t done yet. March had all of the above. Here’s a look at what I was up to.

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Awwww 😍

Perhaps not out of style just yet.

Sometimes "I Don't Know" is the Right Answer On the rarity of intellectual humility in the gun debate

The story got me thinking about the intellectual virtues I will teach in my Sociology of Guns class this fall, notably humility. I reflect on that in today's Substack post.

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Open Season A deadly new trend emerges in Shockoe Bottom.

Richmond Magazine contacted me about young men openly carrying firearms in Shockoe Bottom. I had not heard of this case, nor of a broader pattern of young people open carrying firearms to perform status in crowded urban entertainment districts. Have you?

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John Correia is Not a Gun Tuber -- He's a Gun Educator What intellectual curiosity and humility look like in gun culture

This week, I posted a video in which I said, "I don't learn most of what I know about gun culture from YouTube." I was also a guest on John Correia's Active Self Protection Extra YouTube channel. In this Substack post, I think about that odd juxtaposition.

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"From my cold, dead hands" vs. "You love guns more than kids" is a trap. Thank you for attending my TEDx talk.

The answer is: no. He said literally nothing new.

But did he say how great he is?

Man, if I was clever, that would have been the ideal repost with quote.

Did the New York Times Accidentally Discover Gun Culture 3.0? Reflections on a recent article on Brandon Herrera and other "guntubers"

On YouTube and Substack today: Did the @nytimes.com accidentally discover Gun Culture 3.0?

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Apparently, almost all 717 million are defective.

Guns in America in 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds Can the BBC tell the story in the time it takes to make a cup of coffee?

Today on Substack: Guns in America in 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds. Can the BBC tell the story in the time it takes to make a cup of coffee?

With Adam Kraut of the Second Amendment Foundation and @krisbrown.bradyunited.org of @bradyunited.org.

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Virtual Book Club With 2026, we begin the third year of our online book club. We meet four times a year to discuss recent books about guns and gun culture. Margaret Kelley’s A Gun of Her Own: The Everyday Lives…

Excited to talk to Margaret Kelley about her new book on women who shoot, A GUN OF HER OWN. Wednesday, April 1st at 6:00 pm EDT on Zoom. Please join us!

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Sick and damn tired of the gun control establishment promoting this nonsense and inserting themselves where they don't belong to boot. It's such a cliche I used it on a sign for my TEDx talk.