second amendment and gun control essay

The Second Amendment and Gun Control

• Introduction to Gun Control Debate

The Second Amendment

• Mass Shootings
• Gun Legislation and Policies
• Grant Funding for Violence Prevention
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• Table of Cases
• Table of Supreme Court Decisions Overruled by Subsequent Decisions
• Table of Laws Held Unconstitutional in Whole or in Part by the Supreme Court
• Table of Supreme Court Justices
• Beyond the Constitution Annotated: Table of Additional Resources
• Methodologies for the Tables

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Churchill, R. H. (2007). Gun Regulation, the Police Power, and the Right to Keep Arms in Early America: The Legal Context of the Second Amendment . Law and History Review , 25 (1), 139–175. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27641432

Halbrook, S. P. (1986). What the Framers Intended: A Linguistic Analysis of the Right to “Bear Arms. ” Law and Contemporary Problems , 49 (1), 151–162. https://doi.org/10.2307/1191615

Kates, D. B. (1986). The Second Amendment: A Dialogue. Law and Contemporary Problems , 49 (1), 143–150. https://doi.org/10.2307/1191614

Kates, D. B. (1983). Handgun Prohibition and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment. Michigan Law Review , 82 (2), 204–273. https://doi.org/10.2307/1288537

Levinson, S. (1989). The Embarrassing Second Amendment. The Yale Law Journal , 99 (3), 637–659. https://doi.org/10.2307/796759

Williams, D. C. (1991). Civic Republicanism and the Citizen Militia: The Terrifying Second Amendment . The Yale Law Journal , 101 (3), 551–615. https://doi.org/10.2307/796867

Winkler, A. (2007). Scrutinizing the Second Amendment. Michigan Law Review , 105 (4), 683–733. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40041533

Yassky, D. (2000). The Second Amendment: Structure, History, and Constitutional Change . Michigan Law Review , 99 (3), 588–668. https://doi.org/10.2307/1290496

Big Think (Producer), & . (2019). The incredible history of the 2nd Amendment and America’s gun violence problem. [Video/DVD] Big Think. https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/the-incredible-history-of-the-2nd-amendment-and-america-s-gun-violence-problem 

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