gun control in america

• Advocate: Control Gunman Not Gun

Tom Givens opened my e-mail just a few days after the horrific shootings in Tucson, Ariz. We're not friends, exactly, but we have shared many notes, arguments and disagreements about guns, gun control, gun culture in America.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• January 24, 2011

• In the Aftermath of Arizona Shooting, Gun Control and Media Blame, Stand Up America Heeds the Call of American Citizens ; Congress Prepares Three New Gun Control Laws, Stand Up America and U.S. Patriots Union Heeds American Concerns and Prepares Nullification Act: 'An Act Prohibiting Infringement of the State of Montana Constitutional Rights to Nullification of Any Federal Legislation Deemed Unconstitutional by the State.'

BIG FORK, Mont., Jan. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The sovereign states lost congressional representation of states' interests in 1913 with the passage of the 17th Amendment, which removed the constitutional right of each state legislature to choose two representatives of state interests, to be seated in the U.S. Senate. According to Stand Up America, all branches of the federal government have increasingly acted against the best interests of the states and the people, reaching farther and farther beyond the scope and authority granted them in the U.S. Constitution and today, the federal government functions with utter disdain for states' and individual rights.

• U.S. Newswire
• January 14, 2011

• A new approach to nineteenth-century religious exemption cases.

... unemployment benefits from two Native Americans who had been fired because their sacramental use o... peyote was criminal under the state's controlled substance laws. (3) The Court's unexpected overtur...

• Stanford Law Review
• Vol. 63 Nbr. 4, April 2011

• Commentary: Sportsman's Paradise Meets Reality of Tucson

Guns were a prevalent part of my formative years. From neighborhood skeet shoots to bagging wild game for the dinner table, my childhood was typical for South Louisiana. It's that background that shapes my feelings as gun control once again becomes a hot topic for discussion in America. The tragedy in Arizona has me torn as to which side of the argument I stand, and, coincidentally, I'll be visiting Tucson next week with the incident still fresh.

• New Orleans City Business
• January 19, 2011

• Gun Violence in America; the Struggle for Control. (Reprint, 2001)

ISBN: 1555535925 TITLE: Gun violence in America; the struggle for control. (reprint, 2001) AUTHOR: DeConde, Alexander. PUBLISHER: Northeastern Univers...

• Reference and Research Book News
• Vol. 19 Nbr. 1, February 2004

• Gun Debates Can Wait

No one should be surprised that attempts were heard almost immediately to inject the tragic shooting spree at Virginia Tech this week into the ongoing debate over gun control. Such a thing is not without historical precedence. In June of 1968, Sen. Robert Kennedy's assassination was followed immediately by intense debates in Congress over gun control measures, and by President Lyndon B. Johnson making a televised speech asking lawmakers, "in the name of sanity, in the name of safety, and in the name of an aroused nation to give America the gun control law it needs.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• April 18, 2007

• From Ballots to Bullets: District of Columbia v. Heller and the New Civil Rights

Introduction. II. From Freedom Rides To .45'S: The Core Brief. III. The Convergence. IV. The Majority Opinion. IV. Implications. V. Conclusion.

... been used to keep guns from African-Americans, particularly during slavery, Reconstruction, and ... brief maintained that even current gun control efforts in the twenty-first century are motivated ...

• Louisiana Law Review
• Nbr. 69-3, April 2009

• ; Millions Will Defend the Second Amendment On Election Day

The fight for 2012 is a fight for our country, our values and our freedom, and if the National Rifle Association (NRA) has anything to say about it, Barack Obama won't get a second term. Mark these words - the NRA and America's gun owners will have plenty to say about it. President Obama doesn't want to hear that. He doesn't want gun owners active in the next election. He doesn't want to tangle with the NRA's 4 million members, or with the 30 million people who identify themselves with the NRA, or with America's 90 million gun owners. Mr. Obama saw what happened in the 1990s. After the Clinton gun ban was shoved down the throats of Americans, gun owners turned out at the polls in record numbers and Democrats lost control of the House.

• The Washington Times
• November 04, 2011

• Tragic response to a tragedy: starting shortly after the Arizona shooting occurred - without any evidence that they were correct - much of the media portrayed the shooter to be a right-wing reactionary.

... made sure to demonize allegedly lax gun-control laws, even though current law already prohibits th...

• The New American
• February 07, 2011

• Right to Bear Arms Would Keep the Peace

I write this letter to applaud Mr. Nick Brandt's letter of Sept. 22 advocating the right to carry firearms in the state of Illinois. Those in the gun-control lobby seem to ignore -- they do ignore - - the fact that crime decreases in states that have the right-to- carry-firearms laws. Others in the gun-control camp say it would increase violence. Hey! America is a violent place.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• September 30, 2004