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Repeal the Second Amendment : the case for a safer America / by Lichtman, Allan J.,author.(CARDINAL)135668;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-311) and index.The toll of gun violence -- Guns in early America -- Adoption of the Second Amendment -- A century of gun controls -- Enter the federal government -- Assassinations and debates over gun control -- The NRA reinvents the Second Amendment -- The original sin of Justice Scalia's originalism : D.C. v. Heller -- Iron triangle : the gun lobby, gun industry, and politicians -- Follow the money -- Debunking the gun lobby's case for firearms self-defense -- "More guns, less crime," another gun lobby myth -- A path to repeal -- After repeal : gun control reforms for a safer America."A radical case for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment is the only way to control gun violence in America. There's an average of one mass shooting per day in the United States. Given the ineffectiveness of the gun control lobby, it's time for a strategy with spine. In Repeal the Second Amendment, Allan J. Lichtman has written the first book that uses history, legal theory and up-to-the-minute data to make a compelling case for the amendment's repeal in order to create a clear road to sensible gun control in the US. Repeal the Second Amendment explores both the true history and current interpretation of the Second Amendment to expose the NRA's blatant historical manipulations and irresponsible fake news releases. Lichtman looks at the history of firearms and gun regulations from colonial times to the present to explain how a historically forgotten sentence in the Constitution has become a flash point of recent politics that benefits only of the gun industry, their lobbyists, and the politicians on their payroll. He probes court decisions and the effective lobbying and public relations strategies of the gun lobby as well as the ineffectiveness of the gun control movement for lessons in doing better. What emerges is a clear and cogent plan - repeal and replace the Second Amendment without taking guns away from anyone who has them now - to make the US a safer place. It's time to Repeal the Second Amendment, and Allan Lichtman is the man to bring this radical plan to America"--
Subjects: Creative nonfiction.; Manifestos.; Firearms; United States.; Firearms ownership; Gun control; Law reform;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Too many times : how to end gun violence in a divided America.
Includes bibliographical resources.96 minutes / Pamela Colloff -- I dream about it every night / Oliver Laughland and Jon Swaine -- A lynch mob of one / Ibram X. Kendi -- Armed abusers / Rachel Graber and Roberta Valente -- Battleground America / Jill Lepore -- Dissent to district of Columbia v. Heller / Jusice Paul Stevens -- Why gun makers fear the NRA / Paul M. Barrett -- How police justify shootings / Janell Ross -- The Chrisrchurch call and steps to tackle terriost and violent extremist content / Jacinda Ardern, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter -- How people can take on the NRA / Common Cause -- Walmart's CEO steps into the gun debate / Andrew Ross Sorkin -- Time to bring federal domestic violence gun laws in line with today's reality / Shannon Watts and Sarah Burd-Sharps -- Local laws and local law enforcement are critical to halt gun violence between intimate partners / Rachel Graber and Roberta Valente -- Extreme risk laws save lives / Robyn Thomas -- The police are still out of control / Frank Serpico."Gun violence is a problem with many faces, but seemingly no solution. From mass shootings to deadly domestic abuse to police officers opening fire, it permeates American life. And yet it feels impossible to address. The lines are firmly drawn and the federal government has not passed any legislation to reduce gun ownership in over twenty-five years. That's why it's time to look at the issue differently. In this revelatory collection, gun violence in America is addressed from three angles: how gun violence affects us today, how we have gotten to this juncture legally and socially, and finally, what we can do to reduce and end gun violence in America. Too many lives are lost by gun fire--around 15,000 a year--but we do have the tools to address this crisis. Top journalists, organizations, and anti-gun-violence advocacy groups are represented here--from Pamela Coloff to Ibram X. Kendi to Everytown for Gun Safety and the Giffords Organization--to collect the most comprehensive, thoughtful and practical guide on gun violence in America. There are no deadlocks and no excuses--we have the tools to stop gun violence now." -- Amazon.com
Subjects: United States.; Gun control; Firearms ownership; Firearms;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Their accomplices wore robes : how the Supreme Court chained black America to the bottom of a racial caste system / by Starkey, Brando Simeo,1982-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Opening address -- Part 1. Prelude -- First leg: The Trinity Conception -- Second leg: the protection retraction -- Third leg: the Mississippi inspiration -- Fourth leg: the slavery reintroduction -- Part 2. Prelude -- Fifth leg: Thurgood and the caste dereliction -- Sixth leg: Thurgood and the ignorance observation -- Seventh leg: Thurgood and the two-faced deception -- Eighth leg: a culture of unfit imposition -- Farewell address."Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court-even more than the presidency or Congress-aligned with the enemies of Black progress to undermine the promise of the Constitution's Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. The Reconstruction Amendments-which sought to abolish slavery, establish equal protection under the law, and protect voting rights-converted the Constitution into a potent anti-caste document. But in the years since, the Supreme Court has refused to allow the amendments to fulfill that promise. Time and again, when petitioned to make the nation's founding conceit-that all men are created equal-real for Black Americans, the nine black robes have chosen white supremacy over racial fairness. Their Accomplices Wore Robes brings to life dozens of cases and their rich casts of characters-petitioners, attorneys, justices-to explain how America arrived at this point and how society might arrive somewhere better, even as today's federal courts lurch rightward. In this groundbreaking grand history, Brando Simeo Starkey reveals a troubling and dark aspect of American history"--
Subjects: Informational works.; United States. Supreme Court.; United States.; United States.; United States.; Equality before the law; Discrimination in justice administration; African Americans; Race discrimination; African American judges.; Slavery;
Available copies: 20 / Total copies: 26
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General Assembly of North Carolina : rules for use of State Legislative Building / by North Carolina.General Assembly.Legislative Services Commission.(CARDINAL)193362;
Subjects: State Legislative Building (N.C.); North Carolina. General Assembly.; Public buildings; Public facilities.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The positive second amendment : rights, regulation, and the future of Heller / by Blocher, Joseph,author.(CARDINAL)598446; Miller, Darrell A. H.,1972-author.(CARDINAL)788202;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: The gun debate and the Constitution -- Gun rights and regulation in American history -- Militias, private purposes, and the road to Heller -- Understanding Heller -- Heller's aftermath: "a vast terra incognita" -- The constitutional grammar of the second amendment -- What is the second amendment for? -- Second amendment law and the gun debate."The Second Amendment is among the most recognized provisions of the Constitution. It is also perhaps the most misunderstood. Common misconceptions about the amendment -- what it forbids, what it permits, how it functions as law - distort the gun debate and America's constitutional culture. In The Positive Second Amendment, Blocher and Miller provide the first comprehensive post-Heller account of the history, theory, and law of the right to keep and bear arms. Their aim is not to pick sides in the gun debate, but rather to show how a positive account of the "constitutional" Second Amendment differs from its political cousin. Understanding the right to keep and bear arms as constitutional law will challenge many deeply held beliefs. But it may also provide a better way to negotiate the seemingly intractable issues that afflict our nation's debate over gun rights and regulation."
Subjects: Heller, Dick Anthony; United States.; Firearms; Gun control; Constitutional history;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Madison's militia : the hidden history of the Second Amendment / by Bogus, Carl T.,author.(CARDINAL)538496;
Includes bibliographical references and index."This book argues that James Madison and the First Congress wrote the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ensure that the South could continue to have armed militia as a bulwark against slave revolts. Although neither Madison nor his colleagues explained why they included a right to bear arms in the Bill of Rights, the Amendment itself explains that a state needed a well-regulated militia to provide for its "security," but what precisely worried the framers? The most reliable method of deducing why people acted as they did is to understand the imperatives they faced. During a debate over whether Virginia should ratify the Constitution and join the Union, Patrick Henry argued that the Constitution enabled Congress to subvert the slave system by disarming the militia--a terrifying prospect because the South lived in constant fear of slave insurrection. Later, Henry worked determinately to end Madison's political career. When he wrote the Bill of Rights, Madison - who, according to a colleague, was "haunted by the ghost of Patrick Henry" - sought to allay the fears Henry had stoked by providing that the militia could be armed by their own members. Some historians believe the framers wanted to safeguard the militia to reduce the need for a standing army, which was considered a threat to liberty. This book shows, however, that the Revolutionary War conclusively demonstrated that the militia were incapable as a military force. The real concern was preserving armed militia for slave control."--
Subjects: Madison, James, 1751-1836; United States.; Firearms; Paramilitary forces; Slavery; Constitutional history;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Understanding your right to bear arms / by Cross, Nathaniel,1978-(CARDINAL)503446; Sommers, Michael A.,1966-(CARDINAL)657027;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-122) and index.The Second Amendment today -- The right to bear arms : a history -- Guns come to America -- The birth of the Second Amendment -- Firearms in the nineteenth century -- Legislating guns -- The Bill of Rights.Explains the right to bear arms as provided in the Bill of Rights; describes the history of the Constitutional amendment; and discusses the controversies involving the amendment throughout United States history.
Subjects: United States.; Firearms; Gun control;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The second founding : how the Civil War and Reconstruction remade the Constitution / by Foner, Eric,1943-author.(CARDINAL)150964;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-205) and index."From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar comes a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time."--
Subjects: Informational works.; United States.; Constitutional history; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877);
Available copies: 24 / Total copies: 26
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Guns, freedom, and terrorism / by LaPierre, Wayne R.,1949-(CARDINAL)383940;
Includes bibliographic references and index.Homeland security: terrorism and truth -- Arming pilots: a moral imperative -- Terrorist bomb factory in Kabul? Close the gun show in Peoria! -- The second amendment: putting freedom first -- Current firearms laws: prosecution is prevention -- Self-protection: women and guns -- The right to carry: trusting citizens with firearms -- Media misrepresentation: and that's the way it isn't -- Michael Bellesiles: his own worst nightmare -- The medical anti-gun lobby: issuing junk science -- The anti-hunting movement: "animal rights" and moral wrongs -- The court offensive: disarmament by lawsuit -- Government terrorism: public housing and raw power -- Australia: loss of liberty -- Britons: disarmed and victimized -- Licensing and registration: "It can't happen here" -- Going ballistic for "fingerprinting" -- Kids and guns: teaching and tolerance -- Parents and reponsibilities: sowing seeds of violence or greatness -- The "gun culture": America's cultural war.
Subjects: United States.; Gun control; Firearms ownership; Firearms; Constitutional law;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Loaded : a disarming history of the Second Amendment / by Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne,1938-author.(CARDINAL)348486;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index.Introduction: Gun love -- Historical context of the Second Amendment -- Savage war -- Slave patrols -- Confederate guerrillas to outlaw icons -- Myth of the hunter -- The Second Amendment as a covenant -- Mass shootings -- White nationalists, the Militia movement, and Tea Party patriots -- Eluding and resisting the historical white supremacy of the Second Amendment -- Conclusion: History is not past."America loves guns. From Daniel Boone and Jesse James, to the NRA and Seal Team 6, gun culture has colored the lore, shaped the law, and protected the market that arms the nation. In Loaded, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz peels away the myths of gun culture to expose the true historical origins of the Second Amendment, revealing the racial undercurrents connecting the earliest Anglo settlers with contemporary gun proliferation, modern-day policing, and the consolidation of influence of armed white nationalists. From the enslavement of Blacks and the conquest of Native America, to the arsenal of institutions that constitute the "gun lobby," Loaded presents a people's history of the Second Amendment, as seen through the lens of those who have been most targeted by guns: people of color. Meticulously researched and thought-provoking throughout, this is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the historical connections between racism and gun violence in the United States"--Publisher's description.
Subjects: United States.; Firearms ownership; Firearms; Firearms and crime;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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