guns

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• 6/4/2021
  

  Understanding Gun and Police Violence Lies Between History and Power

  by Kwasi Konadu

  Dealing effectively with gun violence and police violence requires recognizing they are connected by the long history of America's culture of force in defense of the social order. The National Gun Violence Awareness Day observed today should reflect this connection.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/28/2021
  

  Was the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Designed to Protect Slavery?

  Randall Kennedy reviews Carol Anderson's "The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America," and charges that Anderson overstates the influence of suppressing slave rebellion on the drafting of the Second Amendment. 

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• SOURCE: Heather Cox Richardson
  4/20/2021
  

  Caught in a Plague of Gun Violence (Letters from an American, April 19, 2021)

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  What explains the different reaction to two Valentine's Day massacres, in 1929 and 2018? Heather Cox Richardson examines the connections between a culture of individualism, desegregation, and guns. 

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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.