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A selection of pro-gun essays and resources

PostPosted: Sat Mar 07, 2020 8:00 pm
by Lumpy
Hi everyone, over the years I've bookmarked some sites that I find myself referencing and forwarding frequently, so here they are. I hope you find them just as useful: title, link, my description

How Gun Control "Worked" in Jamaica 1998 Tina Terry Fall 1998 The Firearms Sentinel
http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/jamaica.htm
What disarmament looks like at street level

The Embarrassing Second Amendment Sanford Levinson Reprinted from the Yale Law Journal, Volume 99, pp. 637-659
LINK UPDATED JUL 16 2021: https://constitution.org/1-Activism/mil/embar2nd.htm
The essay that pointed out the disconnect between progressives' championing of the Bill of Rights, and their views on the 2nd

THE HISTORY OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT DAVID E. VANDERCOY
https://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndschol/89vand.pdf
The roots of the Second Amendment- the English Civil War and subsequent legal theory in the 18th century

The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper
https://www.recoilweb.com/the-surprisin ... 58140.html
Peaceful civilization has triumphed and the $#!+ will never hit the fan again? Not so fast

The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights
http://www.thepolemicist.net/2013/01/th ... r-gun.html
A "liberal" in the original sense of someone in favor of more freedom, who tells it like it is.

Philippine gun makers take aim from the backyard to the production line
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-phil ... 0S20120729
An example of how banning guns created a vast clandestine gun manufacture industry.

The Wild West, or "What if everyone carried a handgun?"
http://www.davekopel.com/2A/LawRev/ShallIssue.htm#c35
Answer: other than drunken fools in saloons shooting each other, the West was safer than modern day big cities.

Monroe Phillips & The Brunswich Massacre
http://www.glynngen.com/history/bwkmassacre.htm
Think mass shootings are a new thing? This happened in 1915. Seven plus the shooter dead, many wounded. The "assault weapon"? A breechloading shotgun.

The meaning of the phrase "well-regulated" in the 2nd amendment From: Brian T. Halonen <halonen@csd.uwm.edu>
https://www.constitution.org/cons/wellregu.htm
Well-regulated means subject to tight control? Not according to the Oxford English Dictionary

101 things to do 'til the revolution by Claire Wolfe
https://archive.org/stream/101_Things_t ... e_djvu.txt
from back when the radical Left had a love affair with guns.

Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman
http://mindcontrol-research.net/wp-cont ... s_1971.pdf
ditto