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People For and Against Gun Control: A Biographical Reference by Marjolijn Bijlefeld

This biographical reference book on “the key figures in the gun control debate today” delivers arguments and counterarguments on the meaning of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Americans’ right to keep and bear arms. This book puts human faces on the argumentation. The figures featured in the reference book came from different backgrounds […]

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The Second Amendment — Reaching a Consensus as an Individual Right

In public pronouncements, Attorney General Janet Reno’s Justice Department and other administration officials have implied erroneously that the Second Amendment refers to a collective right rather than an individual right. Never mind that when James Madison, the father of the Constitution, wrote, “The advantage that Americans have over every other nation is that they are

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Great Britain and Gun Control: With Neither Liberty nor Safety

Great Britain, which gave birth to the great political philosophy of classic liberalism and to America, the flowering of Western civilization, is in moral decline. Not content with holding Gen. Augusto Pinochet hostage, Britain now holds its own citizens hostage like an authoritarian nation that distrusts its own citizens with firearms.(1) Since 1996, when a

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Guns: Who Should Have Them? by David B. Kopel (editor)

Each chapter in this powerful volume will help the readers cut through the rhetoric and sensationalism that frequently surrounds the gun control debate. Written by the leading experts in law, criminology and medicine, this volume includes such headings as “Arms and the Woman”; “Doctors and Guns,” further rebutting the arguments that guns are a public

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More Guns, Less Crime : Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws (Studies in Law and Economics) by John R. Lott, Jr.

In this most momentous book, John R. Lott, Jr., studied the FBI’s massive yearly crime statistics for all 3,054 U.S. counties over 18 years (1977-1994), the largest national survey on gun ownership and state police documentation in illegal gun use, and comes to some startling conclusions: 1. While neither state waiting periods nor the federal

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