Timely work by my friend and Wake Forest colleague @charactergap.bsky.social. Chapter 5 has been on my mind for a while now and only getting more pressing.

Back at Apache Solutions Firearms Training for a course I have been wanting to sit in on for years. Citizens Safety Academy "Gateway Instructor Certification Course" taught by Tiffany Johnson and Aqil Qadir. Possibly one of the most important classes I've observed.

Cause a Pause. National Crisis Hotline 988. @walkthetalkamerica.bsky.social

Grateful to have Apache Solutions Firearms Training close by so I can take unique courses like "Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why," a 9 hour classroom course by John Hearne of Two Pillars Training. The Honorary Nerd pocket protector is the best swag I've gotten at a gun course.

I've been thinking about the Declaration of Independence and America 250 quite a bit lately, in connection with guns, life, liberty, and the pursuit of rational discourse. Read more in Illuminations #8 on Substack. lightoverheat.substack.com/p/illuminati...

This week is the Light Over Heat Virtual Book Club’s third and final meeting to discuss Jooyoung Lee’s The Walking Wounded: Festering and Ricocheting Trauma After Gun Violence. More information about the book club is available here: davidyamane.com/welcome-to-v...

What happens when a Gun Culture 2.0 scholar hangs out with a bunch of Gun Culture 1.0 enthusiasts? Gun curiosity activated! (Includes link to my Spring 2026 article in the Smith & Wesson Collectors Association Journal.) lightoverheat.substack.com/p/i-crashed-...

I'm just out here trying to finish my book on Gun Culture 2.0 and people keep trying to go beyond that. So, how many gun cultures are there, anyway? Gun Websites says NINE! lightoverheat.substack.com/p/i-may-have...

97,500 views so far and over 1,500 comments. If you want me to stop posting about this, I have to get to 100K/2K. Please, make me stop! youtu.be/BzB8MX4v8ko?...

When I criticize my fellow liberals for being closed-minded, my conservative friends often claim the moral high ground. But my criticism runs both ways. As evidenced by the comments on my recent TEDx talk. lightoverheat.substack.com/p/closed-min...

2nd of 3 virtual book club meetings on THE WALKING WOUNDED is tomorrow at 6:00 pm EDT. Not easy to read these stories of trauma, but important to understand. Registration link for book club is: davidyamane.com/welcome-to-v...

Forgot to mention, here's the original script for my TEDx talk, "Escaping the Gun Debate Trap." The video has crossed over 90,000 views and nearly 1,500 comments, which is incredible, but I know some people prefer words. lightoverheat.substack.com/p/transcript...

TIL that Ruger relocated its headquarters from CT to Mayodan, NC on 1/1/26. Which made me wonder, why Mayodan, NC, which is in the middle of nowhere 45 miles north of me? I found an old @washingtonpost.com story about how they're building firearms there! 🎁🔗https://wapo.st/4dzLuLn

My comms strategist always reminds me that views =/= engagement, but I always remind myself that views are a precondition for engagement, so excited to see this from my talk at TEDx @wakeforest.bsky.social

My April Light Over Heat Digest centers on curiosity as an idea worth spreading. Do your part! lightoverheat.substack.com/p/illuminati...

Gift link to essay on the passing of Jurgen Habermas in The Atlantic. Significant insights into the challenge of liberal democracy, the public sphere, and mass media today. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A story about GLOCK in @vanityfair.com wasn't on my bingo card for 20-ever.

My TEDx talk was really taking off when someone switched the setting to "for kids" & killed its mojo. It's fixed now so I would appreciate if you could share the video (again) and/or comment on it to kickstart it. I'd love to cross over 100k views and 2k comments. Thanks! youtu.be/BzB8MX4v8ko?...

Good resource here, but come on @pewresearch.org, why are you highlighting the NUMBER of gun deaths rather than the rate up front? www.pewresearch.org?p=8030

Most people who are shot don't die. What happens to them after that? Tomorrow (4/29) we begin our discussion of THE WALKING WOUNDED by sociologist Jooyoung Lee. Please join us. davidyamane.com/welcome-to-v...

7 years ago today, I gave my most-viewed talk ever (12K views). My recent TEDx talk has more than doubled that video's viewership. I'm grateful for everyone who has taken time to watch and share "Escaping the Gun Debate Trap." I hope it makes some difference. youtu.be/BzB8MX4v8ko?...

youtube.com/watch?v=BzB8... The thumbnail misses @davidyamane.bsky.social point, but watching “Escaping the gun debate trap” is worth the time.

Don't let the thumbnail fool you. My TEDxWakeForestU talk focused on how we can ESCAPE THE GUN DEBATE TRAP and move forward as a society. It's a big ask given the polarized world we live in. youtu.be/BzB8MX4v8ko?...

Did the drawing for the free copy of our next Light Over Heat Virtual Book Club read. Posting the video as proof. youtube.com/shorts/JeSBx...

Conversation with Gun Freedom Radio + Getting a GUN CURIOUS Royalty Statement = Self-Reflection. lightoverheat.substack.com/p/preaching-...

A few more hours to get into the drawing for a free copy of this book! Register for the virtual book club to be entered. Attendance not necessary to win. wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Liars! All y'all who said you were going to buy GUN CURIOUS when the audiobook came out . . . 😂😭

Enter to win a free copy of Jooyoung Lee's brand new book, The Walking Wounded: Festering and Ricocheting Trauma after Gun Violence. Entry deadline: Friday, 4/24 at noon Eastern time. lightoverheat.substack.com/p/enter-to-w...

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. youtu.be/6YEJ807tAv8?...

What a Danish newspaper got right about Brandon Herrera, guntubers, and American gun culture With @stephengutowski.bsky.social of The Reload lightoverheat.substack.com/p/what-a-dan...

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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.”

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. youtu.be/9GSsdN1S1vs?...

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). lightoverheat.substack.com/p/the-other-... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyWI...

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. lightoverheat.substack.com/p/illuminati...

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? richmondmagazine.com/news/news/we...

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. lightoverheat.substack.com/p/john-corre...

"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.

On YouTube and Substack today: Did the @nytimes.com accidentally discover Gun Culture 3.0? lightoverheat.substack.com/p/did-the-ne... youtu.be/ogyGd1WX6IQ?...

Apparently, almost all 717 million are defective.

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. lightoverheat.substack.com/p/guns-in-am...

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! davidyamane.com/welcome-to-v...

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.

I had the opportunity to do some firearm cultural competency education for students at the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health (Go Badgers!). Here's a recording of the five essential observations I wanted them to see about guns in America. youtu.be/qLTW4V4xlfk?...

No foolin'! Join us virtually on Wednesday, April 1st for a Q&A session with Margaret Kelley, author of the new book, A GUN OF HER OWN: THE EVERYDAY LIVES OF WOMEN WHO SHOOT. Zoom webinar registration: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Playing with Fire(arms) for TedxWakeForestU. A difficult and satisfying experience.

TEDx @wakeforest.bsky.social coming in 🔥. I'm the only professor in the line-up so prepping hard to rep academics. Live on 3/22, hopefully a recording will be available thereafter.

I don't hold the trademark on "Gun Culture 2.0," but I don't think the authors of this otherwise interesting @nytimes.com article use the term correctly. Maybe after TEDx I will have time to explain why. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/u...

I enjoyed joining "Firearms Friday" on The Michael Dukes Show to talk about Bridging the Divide on gun rights vs. public safety. www.youtube.com/live/cMaNZOo...