Second Amendment

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• 9/20/2020
  

  The Second Amendment has Never Covered Kenosha Shooter Kyle Rittenhouse

  by Noah Shusterman

  If his lawyer wants to argue that Kyle Rittenhouse was acting in the spirit of those eighteenth-century militias which went outside the law and defied their state government, and especially those who did so in the interest of promoting white supremacy – his case would be historically solid. It would not, however, be an exoneration.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/3/2020
  

  In Act of Heresy, N.R.A.’s Former No. 2 Calls for Gun Control

  “The N.R.A. fueled a toxic debate,” Mr. Powell writes, “by appealing to the paranoia and darkest side of our members, in a way that has torn at the very fabric of America.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/18/2020
  

  One of these Stories about Guns in Public Places is not Like the Others. Here’s Why.

  by Jonathan Blanks

  As guns have become an increasingly common sight at protests and government buildings, it’s clear that carrying them means different things — and presents different risks — for black and white Americans.

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• SOURCE: Boston1775 (blog)
  6-7-18
  

  A check of databases show the Supreme Court erred in saying the Second Amendment protects the individual ownership of guns

  Two new databases of English writing from the founding era confirm that “bear arms” is a military term.

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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.

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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.