gun control

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• 6/9/19
  

  Political Corruption Underwrites America’s Gun-Control Nightmare

  by Thom Hartmann

  The story of the rich politician whose extreme corruption inspired the 17th Amendment--and how the Citizens United ruling allows money to rule politics once again. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/9/19
  

  The Black Gun Owner Next Door

  by Tiya Miles

  I’m an African-American historian and, on most issues, decidedly liberal. Could I rethink my anti-gun stance?

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• 10/30/18
  

  UPDATED What Historians Are Saying About the Pittsburgh Shooting and the Florida Bomber

  Their tweets and retweets.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7-3-18
  

  Why Americans have long been fascinated by gunfighting preachers

  by Steve Pinkerton

  The anser involves two facts:  1. The US has the largest Christian population in the world, and 2. Americans love guns.

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• 7-3-18
  

  The Media Have Been the Target of Violence since the Beginning of the Republic

  by Harold Holzer

  It’s always an ominous sign.

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• SOURCE: The Panorama
  6-4-18
  

  The Persistence of a Mythic Second Amendment in Contemporary Constitutional Culture

  by Saul Cornell

  The most prominent myth obscuring historical understanding of the Second Amendment relates to America’s frontier past.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-24-18
  

  Law professor has a theory about the 2nd Amendment historians might want to consider

  by Carl T. Bogus

  The theory: The amendment was included in part to protect slavery

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  5-21-18
  

  Would the Founders want our kids to die in school shootings like Santa Fe? I doubt it.

  by Jill Lawrence

  Does anyone think they would expect us to live by a 230-year-old document?

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• 6/3/18
  

  What LBJ Warned Allies in the Gun Control Debate After Robert Kennedy Was Assassinated

  by Kyle Longley

  “We have only two weeks, maybe only 10 days before the gun lobby gets organized.”

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-3-18
  

  How M.L.K.’s Death Helped Lead to Gun Control in the U.S.

  LBJ had used the death of President John F. Kennedy to pass the Civil Rights Act, and wrung the Voting Rights Act from the Bloody Sunday march from Selma to Montgomery. In 1968 he used MLK's death to pass the Gun Control Act.

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• SOURCE: Snopes
  3/28/18
  

  Was the NRA Founded to Protect Black People from the Ku Klux Klan?

  Revisionist accounts of the origin of the National Rifle Association say it was formed to help freed slaves defend themselves against racist attacks after the Civil War.

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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: Politico
  3-24-18
  

  The Lessons of a School Shooting—in 1853

  by Saul Cornell

  How a now-forgotten classroom murder inflamed the national gun argument.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-26-18
  

  How the marches for gun control are like the protests against Vietnam

  As in Vietnam, students have a stake in this fight.

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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.