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2/19/18

HNN Hot Topics: Gun Violence

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tags: Hot Topics, Second Amendment, guns, gun control



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“Since 1970, more Americans have died from guns than died in all U.S. wars going back to the American Revolution.” — NYT Columnist Nicholas Kristof 

Commentary & News

  • Joe Nocera:  2nd Amendment:  What Did the Framers Really Mean?
  • Jack Rakove: Scalia's selective history
  • Jim Castagnera: The Firearms Dilemma
  • Sanford Levinson: DC v. Heller ... A Dismaying Performance By The Supreme Court
  • David E. Young: Why DC's Gun Law Is Unconstitutional
  • Historians file brief in SCOTUS in support of DC gun law
  • Saul Cornell: The Second Amendment Goes to Court
  • Adam Freedman: The comma and the 2nd Amendment
  • Saul Cornell: The Right to Bear Bazookas: A New Take on the Second Amendment
  • Robert Spitzer: Working Hard to Misconstrue the 2nd Amendment
  • Saul Cornell: It's Time for Gun Control Proponents to Reclaim the Constitutional High Ground
  • Don B. Kates: Shouldn't People Who Favor Gun Control Favor War in Iraq?
  • Don B. Kates: Do Guns Cause Crime?
  • P.M. Carpenter: Did You Think John Ashcroft Wasn't Serious About Guns?
  • Keith Miller: The West:"With a Draw From Either Hand" ... Gunslingers of the Old West
  • Robert Spitzer: Review of Alexander DeConde's Gun Violence in America: The Struggle for Control

    • Michael Bellesiles Scandal

  • How the Bellesiles Story Developed
  • Daniel Justin Herman: Review of Michael A. Bellesiles's Arming America
  • Glenn Harlan Reynolds: Do the People Who Favorably Reviewed the Bellesiles Book Owe Readers an Apology?
  • Don Williams: Could Bellesiles's Problems Undermine Gun Control?
  • Ronald Radosh: Michael Bellesiles Is PC


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    Bill Hutto - 7/13/2008

    Crooks won't be deterred by gun control. They will get them by hook or crook.

    Stephen Kislock - 3/23/2007

    I really think GUNS in the Hands of the "People" today, is one reason the Neo-Con have not attempted a real Coup d e tat, Just look to Iraq and what happens when the "People" can Arm themselves!

    Earl David Quammen - 3/16/2007

    All 'gun control' is REPUGNANT to We The People's Constitution. To Wit;

    http://gunshowonthenet.com/2ALEGAL/AffordedGodNature.html

    http://gunshowonthenet.com/2ALaw/LawsofNature.html

    http://gunshowonthenet.com/SecondAmend/GeorgeWashingtonArms.html

    http://gunshowonthenet.com/2ALEGAL/SelfPreservation.html

    http://gunshowonthenet.com/2ALEGAL/Precedent/SenateJournal09091789.html

    http://gunshowonthenet.com/2ALEGAL/CitizensRight.html

    http://gunshowonthenet.com/SecondAmend/TheRight.html

    http://gunshowonthenet.com/2ALaw/AmericaAlwaysArmed.html

    The PROOF is insurmountable; Before the current Constitution -

    http://gunshowonthenet.com/2ALEGAL/Origins.html

    During the debates -

    http://gunshowonthenet.com/2ALEGAL/Origins&;Precedent.html

    And, After the FACT -

    http://gunshowonthenet.com/AfterTheFact/Contents.html

    "The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms shall NOT be infringed". Means EXACTLY that which is written. All 'precedence' to the contrary is Constitutionally REPUGNANT and therefore NULL and VOID.