gun rights

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/4/2021
  

  Why are Medieval Weapons at the Center of a Supreme Court Case?

  by Jennifer Tucker

  The history and traditions of English law inform American judicial interpetation today, including efforts to discern the functional meaning of the Second Amendment. A group of historians has briefed the Court that restricting dangerous weapons in public is long-established. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/28/2021
  

  Was the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Designed to Protect Slavery?

  Randall Kennedy reviews Carol Anderson's "The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America," and charges that Anderson overstates the influence of suppressing slave rebellion on the drafting of the Second Amendment. 

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• 1/17/2020
  

  Restoring Civil Society by Executive Order?: An Inaugural Reverie

  by John L. Godwin

  Joe Biden should defend the First Amendment right to peaceable assembly by a temporary emergency order criminalizing the carrying of firearms at public protest events and make clear that the threat of force is not part of the democratic process.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/11/2021
  

  The Gun-Rights Movement Fed America’s Insurrectionist Fever Dreams

  by Firmin DeBrabander

  "The gun-rights movement cleared the path for insurrection. It blew a hole in the rule of law—and Donald Trump’s would-be soldiers clamored through it. And then scaled the walls of Congress." 

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• SOURCE: Duke Center for Firearms Law
  10/14/2020
  

  Amy Coney Barrett on Guns

  by Jake Charles

  A Second Amendment scholar examines the SCOTUS nominee's historical interpretation of prohibitions on individual firearm ownership, concluding that her record shows a commitment to gun rights but uncertainty about how she might rule on particular cases.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/26/19
  

  The danger of denying black Americans political rights

  by Kellie Carter Jackson

  Without access to political rights, violence becomes a crucial tool in the fight for freedom.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-27-18
  

  Gun-control advocates believe their activism will mirror the fight for gay marriage. They’re wrong.

  by James Kirchick

  The better comparison is Prohibition — and we all know how that turned out.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-22-18
  

  America Passed Gun Control in 1968. Can It Happen Again?

  by Jason Sokol

  The King and Kennedy assassinations spurred the passage of the Gun Control Act.

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• 3-14-18
  

  We Shouldn’t Be Surprised that Young People Are Leading the Charge for Gun Control

  by Bill Heiden

  Most importantly, history shows that this kind of street action works.

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• SOURCE: guns.com
  3-13-18
  

  Patrick J. Charles, author of a new book on guns, defends militia-centric understanding of Second Amendment

  “There’s been people on both sides who’ve misappropriated historical evidence over time or failed to fully contextualize it.”

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-12-18
  

  Jonathan Zimmerman says students should go on strike to win gun control

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  West Virginia teachers won by striking. There’s a lesson in that.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-5-18
  

  7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism

  History is full of movements led by students — albeit usually in college, not high school. Some were successful and others brutally crushed, but even the latter still resonate.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-2-18
  

  Before Trump’s wild shifts on the NRA, Ronald Reagan took on the gun lobby

  On May 3, 1994, Ronald Reagan and two other former presidents sent a letter to House members, urging them to support a controversial ban on lethal, military-style assault weapons.

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• SOURCE: The Globe and Mail
  3-2-18
  

  Boycotts won't weaken the NRA's bottom line – but that's not the point

  by Lawrence Glickman

  The ethical point boycotters have tried to raise from that time to our own is that, in an interconnected national and international market economy, there are no innocent bystanders.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  2-25-18
  

  Even the Wild West Embraced Gun Control

  by Gil Troy

  The Wild West wasn't so wild that it—and the Stormy South—couldn’t include gun control.

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• 3/4/18
  

  This Is How You Get Gun Control

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  It’s what happened after several headline-making shootings captured public attention a century ago.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  2-28-18
  

  Gun-rights advocates are right that violent films encourage school shootings. They’re wrong about how.

  by Matthew Christopher Hulbert

  The problem isn't the violence — it's the celebration of gun culture.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  2-27-18
  

  A gunmaker once tried to reform itself. The NRA nearly destroyed it.

  In 2001, a little more than a year after cutting a gun-control deal with the US government, the British conglomerate that owned Smith & Wesson sold it at a dramatic loss.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  2-26-18
  

  Why Are Conservatives So Obsessed With Gun Rights Anyway?

  by John Ehrenreich

  Belief in gun rights hasn’t always been a conservative ideology. Psychology helps explain how it took off.

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• SOURCE: History channel
  2-23-18
  

  This Isn’t the First Time Conspiracy Theorists Have Accused Student Activists of Being ‘Paid Actors’

  Raymond Arsenault, a civil rights historian and author of Freedom Riders, says that in 1960, white supremacists started to lean into this technique of discrediting student activists by linking their actions to Northern interference.