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And when gun enthusiasts talk about Constitutional liberties guaranteed by the Second Amendment, they are referring to freedom in a general sense, but they also have something more specific in mind---freedom from government oppression. Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea reveals that the p...

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Main Author: Horwitz, Joshua, 1963-
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Anderson, Casey, 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Civil rights > United States.
Gun control > United States.
Firearms > Law and legislation > United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
Civil rights.
Firearms > Law and legislation.
Gun control.
United States.
Kontrolle.
Waffenrecht.
Waffenbesitz.
USA.
Political Science
Electronic books.
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Summary:And when gun enthusiasts talk about Constitutional liberties guaranteed by the Second Amendment, they are referring to freedom in a general sense, but they also have something more specific in mind---freedom from government oppression. Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea reveals that the proponents of this view base their argument on a deliberate misreading of history. A myth has been forged by twisting the facts of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States, the denial of civil rights to African-Americans after the Civil War, and the rise of the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler. Here, Horwitz and Anderson set the record straight. The books also discusses issues regarding the NRA, D.C. v. Heller, German gun laws for Nazis during the Holocaust, property rights, and "shoot first" laws. Challenging the proposition that more guns equal more freedom, they expose Insurrectionism---not government oppression---as the true threat to freedom in the U.S. today. Joshua Horwitz is Executive Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (274 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-259) and index.
ISBN:9780472021994
0472021990
9780472900886
0472900889