Living with guns : a liberal's case for the Second Amendment

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Label

Living with guns : a liberal's case for the Second Amendment

Title remainder

a liberal's case for the Second Amendment

Statement of responsibility

Craig R. Whitney

Title variation

Liberal's case for the Second Amendment

Creator

• Whitney, Craig R., 1943-

Subject

• Firearms -- Law and legislation
• Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States
• Gun control
• Gun control -- United States
• LAW -- Civil Rights
• Constitution (United States)
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security | Law Enforcement
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology
• United States
• United States
• United States.
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security | Civil Rights

Language

eng

Summary

Newtown. Columbine. Virginia Tech. Tucson. Aurora. Gun violence on a massive scale has become a plague in our society, yet politicians seem more afraid of having a serious conversation about guns than they are of the next horrific shooting. Any attempt to change the status quo, whether to strengthen gun regulations or weaken them, is sure to degenerate into a hysteria that changes nothing. Our attitudes toward guns are utterly polarized, leaving basic questions unasked: How can we reconcile the individual right to own and use firearms with the right to be safe from gun violence? Is keeping guns out of the hands of as many law-abiding Americans as possible really the best way to keep them out of the hands of criminals? And do 30,000 of us really have to die by gunfire every year as the price of a freedom protected by the Constitution? Craig R. Whitney, former editor at the New York Times, seeks out answers. He re-examines why the right to bear arms was enshrined in the Bill of Rights, and how it came to be misunderstood. He looks to colonial times, surveying the degree to which guns were a part of everyday life. Finally, blending history and reportage, Whitney explores how twentieth-century turmoil and culture war led to today's climate of activism, partisanship, and stalemate, in a nation that contains an estimated 300 million guns -- and probably at least 60 million gun owners. In the end, Whitney proposes a new way forward through our gun rights stalemate, showing how we can live with guns -- and why, with so many of them around, we have no other choice

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

323.4/3

Index

index present

LC call number

KF3941

LC item number

.W4425 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography