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Second Amendment

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• Originally published 05/27/2014

  2nd Amendment: What Did the Framers Really Mean?

  What we know is that the founders were deeply opposed to a standing army, which they viewed as the first step toward tyranny.

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• Originally published 09/10/2013

  There's No Unlimited Right to Bear Arms

  Not even Scalia argues there is one.

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• Originally published 04/17/2013

  HNN Teacher's Edition: Gun Control (Grades 9-12)

  A backgrounder for teachers.

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• Originally published 04/17/2013

  HNN Teacher's Edition: Gun Control (Grades 3-6)

  Lesson plan for grade school students.

• Originally published 02/06/2013

  Jim Sleeper: Guns Require a New Politics

  Only Mexico and Guatemala have constitutional provisions resembling our Second Amendment.

• Originally published 01/23/2013

  Paul Finkelman: 2nd Amendment Passed to Protect Slavery? No!

  It serves no purpose to make historical arguments that are demonstrably wrong, misleading and inconsistent.

• Originally published 01/15/2013

  Thom Hartmann: The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery

  "The real reason the Second Amendment was ratified, and why it says "State" instead of "Country" (the Framers knew the difference - see the 10th Amendment), was to preserve the slave patrol militias in the southern states."

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• Originally published 07/06/2010

  HNN Hot Topics: Gun Control

  Right vs. Left: What the Founders believed about gun control.

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• Originally published 12/17/2013

  Demystifying the American Story

  Robin Lindley's interview with Jill Lepore.