Gun control and gun rights : a reader and guide /
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| Imprint: | New York : New York University Press, c2002. |
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| Description: | xv, 368 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4759512 |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. The Benefits of Gun Ownership
- A. The Benefits of Guns for Personal Self-Defense
- Basic Self-Defense Principles
- The Effectiveness of Guns for Self-Defense
- Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America / Gary Kleck
- How Many Defensive Gun Uses (DGUs)?
- Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun / Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz
- The Gun Debate's New Mythical Number: How Many Defensive Uses Per Year? / Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig and David Hemenway
- B. Gun Ownership and Carrying as a Deterrent to Crime
- Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms / James D. Wright and Peter H. Rossi
- Gun Carrying
- More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws / John R. Lott, Jr.
- "Lotts" More Guns and Other Fallacies Infecting the Gun Control Debate / Andrew J. McClurg
- C. Recreational Use
- Ch. 2. The Costs of Firearms
- A. Homicides and Other Intentional Shootings
- Firearms and Violence: Interpreting the Connection / Stevens H. Clarke
- B. Suicide
- The Public Health Case for the Safe Storage of Firearms: Adolescent Suicides Add One More "Smoking Gun" / Andrew J. McClurg
- C. Accidental Shootings
- Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control / Gary Kleck
- D. The Financial Costs of Firearms Crime
- E. Fear
- Fear of Crime in the United States: Avenues for Research and Policy / Mark Warr
- Ch. 3. Philosophical Roots of the Right to Arms and of Opposition to That Right
- A. Self-Defense as a Natural Right
- In Defence of Titus Annius Milo / Circero
- The Rights of War and Peace / Hugo Grotius
- Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes
- Second Treatise on Government / John Locke
- On Crime and Punishment / Cesare Beccaria
- B. Arms Bearing as an Incident of Citizenship
- The Politics / Aristotle
- The Art of War / Niccolo Machiavelli
- Letter to Samuel Kercheval (July 12, 1816) / Thomas Jefferson
- Advice to the Privileged Orders / Joel Barlow
- C. The Propensity of Absolute Rulers to Disarm Their Subjects
- The Politics / Aristotle
- The Republic / Plato
- The Laws / Plato
- The Art of War / Niccolo Machiavelli
- The Six Bookes of a Commonweale / Jean Bodin
- The American Crisis / Thomas Paine
- D. The Citizen Militia as Dual Safeguard against Tyranny and Foreign Invasion
- Discourses on Livy / Niccolo Machiavelli
- A Discourse of Government with Relation to Militias / Andrew Fletcher
- The Federalist No. 46 / James Madison
- E. Doubts about the Efficacy of Militias
- An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations / Adam Smith
- The Federalist No. 29 / Alexander Hamilton
- Ch. 4. The Right to Arms in the Second Amendment and State Constitutions: Cases and Commentary
- A. The Second Amendment in the Supreme Court
- Presser v. Illinois, 116 U.S. 252 (1886)
- United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939)
- B. The Second Amendment in Lower Federal Courts
- Hickman v. Block, 81 F. 3d 98 (1996)
- United States v. Emerson, 46 F. Supp. 2d 598 (N.D. Tex. 1999)
- C. Scholarly Commentary on the Second Amendment
- A Critical Guide to the Second Amendment / Glenn Harlan Reynolds
- Commonplace or Anachronism: the Standard Model, the Second Amendment, and the Problem of History in Contemporary Constitutional Theory / Saul Cornell
- D. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms under State Constitutions
- Andrews v. State, 50 Tennessee (3 Heisk.) 165 (1871)
- City of Salina v. Blaksley, 83 P. 619 (Kans. 1905)
- State v. Kessler, 614 P. 2d 94 (Ore. 1980)
- Arnold v. City of Cleveland, 616 N.E. 2d 163 (Ohio 1993)
- Ch. 5. Guns and Identity: Race, Gender, Class, and Culture
- A. Race
- The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration / Robert J. Cottrol and Raymond T. Diamond
- Race, Riots, and Guns / Carl T. Bogus
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. A. A. Arms, Inc. et al
- Guns Don't Kill Black People, Other Blacks Do / David Horowitz
- B. Gender
- Why Annie Can't Get Her Gun: A Feminist Perspective on the Second Amendment / Inge Anna Larish
- Why Packing a Pistol Perpetuates Patriarchy / Alana Bassin
- C. Class and Culture
- Submission Is Not the Answer: Lethal Violence, Microcultures of Criminal Violence and the Right to Self-Defense / Robert J. Cottrol
- Firearms Ownership by Class and Culture
- Lethal Violence Victimization by Class and Culture
- Ch. 6. Guns and Civil Liability
- A. Are Guns Defective Products on the Theory That Their Risk to Society Outweighs Their Usefulness?
- Handguns as Products Unreasonably Dangerous Per Se / Andrew J. McClurg
- Rejecting the "Whipping-Boy" Approach to Tort Law: Well-Made Handguns Are Not Defective Products / Philip D. Oliver
- B. Are Guns Defective Products If They Can Be Made Safer?
- A Public Health Approach to Regulating Firearms as Consumer Products / Jon S. Vernick and Stephen P. Teret
- C. Have Gun Manufacturers Negligently Marketed Guns to Criminals?
- Merrill v. Navegar, Inc. 89 Calif. Rptr. 2d 146 (Calif. Ct. App. 1999), reversed, 110 Calif. Rptr. 2d 370 (Calif. 2001)
- D. Government Plaintiff Litigation
- Municipal Firearm Litigation: Ill Conceived from Any Angle / Anne Giddings Kimball and Sarah L. Olson
- The Smith & Wesson Settlement
- The Future.
