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A Liberal's Case for the Second Amendment
Public Affairs
November 2012
On Sale: November 13, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 1610391691
EAN: 9781610391696
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America’s war over gun control has raged since the 1960s. In
2008, the Supreme Court startled the left by concluding that
with the Second Amendment the founders elevated “above all
other interests” the right to bear arms “in defense of
hearth and home.” Liberals feared the NRA would succeed in
rolling back regulations nationwide. Discussion about guns
in America has been stalemated, shortcircuited, and
dominated by rigidly and mutually intolerant ideologies. Yet
we may be closer to a solution than either side may imagine. In Living With Guns, veteran New York Times editor Craig
Whitney carefully reexamines America’s relationship with
guns, showing how guns are an important part of American
culture. The earliest colonists needed them to survive. We
have nearly 300 million of them today. Trying to restrict
gun ownership doesn’t effectively deter crime—we need to get
serious about what actually works. Whitney shows that, if we
focus on controlling violence rather than guns themselves,
the Second Amendment may not be so lethal as the left would
like to think.
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