2024 was my third full year of posting videos to my YouTube channel, “Light Oer Heat with Professor David Yamane.”

I still don’t feel as comfortable on camera as I do behind a keyboard, but I set aside that discomfort to try to achieve the goal stated in the channel’s title. I will leave it to others to determine whether I actually achieve that goal.

Though the view counts on most of these videos are modest, I am proud of the quality of the material I am producing for the small niche I have carved out in America’s great and terrible gun debate.

Here are the 10 most viewed full-length videos I posted in 2024. (I am excluding shorts, which almost always have more views.)

[1] ICYMI NRA Members Meeting Debate Resolution Abt Move to Texas

[2] Guns are Normal and Normal People Use Guns: Public Webinar 1 of 7 on Guns in America (LoH #104)

[3] BONUS EPISODE: On Living with Guns, Alcohol, and Complicity (Light Over Heat #83)

[4] Response to “Living With a Gun” Opinion Published in the Boston Globe (Light Over Heat #82)

[5] The Professor Is In and Touching the Third Rail By Talking about Gun Control (Light Over Heat #85)

[6] What The Professor Learned in His Surprising Journey Inside Gun Culture – Gun Curious Conclusions

[7] Hot Take on the Jennifer Crumbley Guilty Verdict in Oxford HS Shooting Case (Light Over Heat #86)

[8] Are Brady and Everytown Anti-Gun as the New York Times Said Recently? (Light Over Heat #87)

[9] “The Agony (and Ecstasy) of Liberal Gun Ownership” – LGC National Meeting Keynote Address (LoH #115)

[10] Reflections on America, Political Enemies and the Trump Assassination Attempt (Light Over Heat #106)

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