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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
3/29/2021
Montana Universities Prepare for Guns on Campuses
Montana's public universities are struggling to plan for the consequences of the legislation signed in February allowing open and concealed carry of firearms on campuses.
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SOURCE: Heather Cox Richardson
3/23/2021
Letters From an American: March 23, 2021
by Heather Cox Richardson
Beginning in the 1970s, the National Rifle Assocaition evolved into a political lobbying organization increasingly enmeshed with the conservative movement. Two recent mass shootings are a tribute to the organization's success. Congratulations.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/26/2021
Out of the Barrel of a Gun
The resurgent militia movement and renewed attention to the threat of political violence compels a reckoning with the vast number of firearms in America and with the political significance of guns.
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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: 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: Texas Monthly
8/1/2020
96 Minutes
An oral history by witnesses and survivors of Charles Whitman's mass shooting at the University of Texas on August 1, 1966.
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SOURCE: Politico
7/29/2020
Chicago Becomes a Stage for Fulfilling a Conservative Battle
Conservatives have wanted the federal government to take control of crime in Chicago for decades — long before Trump got into politics.
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SOURCE: TIME
5/26/2020
Understanding the Origins of American Gun Culture Can Help Reframe Today’s Gun Debate
by Jim Rasenberger
The past is a morally untidy place. As a result, it is also a place, perhaps the last one left, where we can meet and lower our weapons for a while.
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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: Time Magazine
8-1-18
The Gun That Sparked the 3D-Printed Weapons Debate Has an Unexpected WWII History
Though an 3D-printed plastic “Liberator” may sound like something out of a futuristic story, its name has a long history.
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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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SOURCE: Cleveland Jewish News
4-9-18
Clarence Thomas’ wife says Jews ‘gave up their firearms to Hitler’
The notion that Jews may have prevented the Holocaust had they been armed, popular in some pro-gun circles, has been debunked by historians, who have noted how outnumbered Jews were in countries in which they were slaughtered.
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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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