The Second Amendment and gun control: freedom, fear, and the American Constitution

Constitutional mythology and the future of Second Amendment jurisprudence after Heller / Saul Cornell -- The Second Amendment right to self-defence : the core freedom in the new century / Joyce Lee Malcolm -- Annie get your gun : women, performance, and the Western heroine / Karen Jones -- "A g...

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Authors: Cornell, Saul (Author) ; DeBrabander, Firmin 1971- (Author) ; Jones, Karen R. 1972- (Author)
Contributors: Yuill, Kevin L. 1962- (Editor) ; Street, Joe (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: London New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2019
In:Year: 2019
Edition:First issued in paperback
Online Access: Table of Contents
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Keywords:
United States > Constitution > 2nd Amendment
United States
gun control > United States
Firearms > Law and legislation > United States
Konferenzschrift > 2015 > London
USA > Feuerwaffe > Waffenbesitz > Waffenrecht
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Summary:Constitutional mythology and the future of Second Amendment jurisprudence after Heller / Saul Cornell -- The Second Amendment right to self-defence : the core freedom in the new century / Joyce Lee Malcolm -- Annie get your gun : women, performance, and the Western heroine / Karen Jones -- "A gun is a gun is anyone's hand" : shooting the gang girl in mi vida loca / Emma Horrex -- "The thought of a black male with a weapon scares America" : African Americans, the Second Amendment, and the racial politics of armed self-defense in the Civil Rights Era and beyond / Simon Wendt and Rebecca Rössling -- From virtuous armed citizen to "cramped little risk-fearing man" : the meaning of firearms in an insecure era / Kevin Yuill -- Gun rights and the rule of law / Firmin Debrabander -- To endure for all time or to change with the times? the Supreme Court and the Second Amendment / Emma Long -- Mr. Gingrich's bequest : globalising the Second Amendment? / Peter Squires -- The universal right of self-defense, and the auxiliary right to defensive arms / David B. Kopel
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Acknowledgements: "The idea for this book came form al Firearms and Freedom Conferenceheld on 11 June 2015 at the Eclles Centre for American Studies in the British Library, London, England."
Physical Description:ix, 159 Seiten
ISBN:9780367887476