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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/11/2021
  

  The Gun-Rights Movement Fed America’s Insurrectionist Fever Dreams

  by Firmin DeBrabander

  "The gun-rights movement cleared the path for insurrection. It blew a hole in the rule of law—and Donald Trump’s would-be soldiers clamored through it. And then scaled the walls of Congress." 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/3/2020
  

  In Act of Heresy, N.R.A.’s Former No. 2 Calls for Gun Control

  “The N.R.A. fueled a toxic debate,” Mr. Powell writes, “by appealing to the paranoia and darkest side of our members, in a way that has torn at the very fabric of America.”

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  8/1/2020
  

  96 Minutes

  An oral history by witnesses and survivors of Charles Whitman's mass shooting at the University of Texas on August 1, 1966. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  7/29/2020
  

  Chicago Becomes a Stage for Fulfilling a Conservative Battle

  Conservatives have wanted the federal government to take control of crime in Chicago for decades — long before Trump got into politics.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  5/26/2020
  

  Understanding the Origins of American Gun Culture Can Help Reframe Today’s Gun Debate

  by Jim Rasenberger

  The past is a morally untidy place. As a result, it is also a place, perhaps the last one left, where we can meet and lower our weapons for a while. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/18/2020
  

  One of these Stories about Guns in Public Places is not Like the Others. Here’s Why.

  by Jonathan Blanks

  As guns have become an increasingly common sight at protests and government buildings, it’s clear that carrying them means different things — and presents different risks — for black and white Americans.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  8-1-18
  

  The Gun That Sparked the 3D-Printed Weapons Debate Has an Unexpected WWII History

  Though an 3D-printed plastic “Liberator” may sound like something out of a futuristic story, its name has a long history.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7-3-18
  

  Why Americans have long been fascinated by gunfighting preachers

  by Steve Pinkerton

  The anser involves two facts:  1. The US has the largest Christian population in the world, and 2. Americans love guns.

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• 7-3-18
  

  The Media Have Been the Target of Violence since the Beginning of the Republic

  by Harold Holzer

  It’s always an ominous sign.

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• SOURCE: The Panorama
  6-4-18
  

  The Persistence of a Mythic Second Amendment in Contemporary Constitutional Culture

  by Saul Cornell

  The most prominent myth obscuring historical understanding of the Second Amendment relates to America’s frontier past.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-24-18
  

  Law professor has a theory about the 2nd Amendment historians might want to consider

  by Carl T. Bogus

  The theory: The amendment was included in part to protect slavery

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  5-21-18
  

  Would the Founders want our kids to die in school shootings like Santa Fe? I doubt it.

  by Jill Lawrence

  Does anyone think they would expect us to live by a 230-year-old document?

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• SOURCE: Cleveland Jewish News
  4-9-18
  

  Clarence Thomas’ wife says Jews ‘gave up their firearms to Hitler’

  The notion that Jews may have prevented the Holocaust had they been armed, popular in some pro-gun circles, has been debunked by historians, who have noted how outnumbered Jews were in countries in which they were slaughtered.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-27-18
  

  Gun-control advocates believe their activism will mirror the fight for gay marriage. They’re wrong.

  by James Kirchick

  The better comparison is Prohibition — and we all know how that turned out.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  3-24-18
  

  The Lessons of a School Shooting—in 1853

  by Saul Cornell

  How a now-forgotten classroom murder inflamed the national gun argument.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-26-18
  

  How the marches for gun control are like the protests against Vietnam

  As in Vietnam, students have a stake in this fight.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-22-18
  

  America Passed Gun Control in 1968. Can It Happen Again?

  by Jason Sokol

  The King and Kennedy assassinations spurred the passage of the Gun Control Act.

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• 3-14-18
  

  We Shouldn’t Be Surprised that Young People Are Leading the Charge for Gun Control

  by Bill Heiden

  Most importantly, history shows that this kind of street action works.

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• SOURCE: guns.com
  3-13-18
  

  Patrick J. Charles, author of a new book on guns, defends militia-centric understanding of Second Amendment

  “There’s been people on both sides who’ve misappropriated historical evidence over time or failed to fully contextualize it.”

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-12-18
  

  Jonathan Zimmerman says students should go on strike to win gun control

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  West Virginia teachers won by striking. There’s a lesson in that.