The US has more firearms than residents, and David Yamane, Professor of Sociology at Wake Forest University sat down with Dan Morrison to discuss his new book Gun Curious: A Liberal Professor’s Surprising Journey Inside America’s Gun Culture(Exposit Books, 2024). Yamane is author or editor of six books, and a longtime specialist in the sociology of religion. More recently, David turned his attention to guns, and has been training in teaching a seminar in the sociology of guns at Wake Forest since 2015. The book is part memoir, part sociological analysis of the social world of guns, gun ownership, and the meaning of guns in the lives of their users. David shares his research and reflections with public audiences through his YouTube channel, Light Over Heat, his blog, and in his new project, Let’s Talk Guns.
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Thank you for this excellent discussion. I posit hunting has decreased for one reason (accessible land) with two causes.
1) Death of family farm/urbanization
2) Loss of paper company land leases
In days of yore, vast tracts of paper company timber were huntable with a $5 permit. Now those are subdivided and leased. Litigation and simplicity likely drove this.