Some gun-related essays: links

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Here are links to some essays online that I have found informative and which offer support to the pro-gun position:

http://www.constitution.org/2ll/2ndschol/89vand.pdf
THE HISTORY OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT by DAVID E. VANDERCOY
An excellent summation of antecedents in English law for gun rights, and how the Second Amendment was drafted. It strongly refutes the "collective" theory of the Second and supports an individual right to keep and bear arms.

http://www.constitution.org/mil/embar2nd.htm
The Embarrassing Second Amendment by Sanford Levinson
A widely quoted study that concludes that the Second Amendment was meant to protect a fundamental personal liberty.

http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/jamaica.htm
How Gun Control "Worked" in Jamaica by Tina Terry
An eyewitness account of what happened in early 1970s Jamaica when the government there announced a gun ban.

http://www.saf.org/lawreviews/polsbyandkates1.htm
AMERICAN HOMICIDE EXCEPTIONALISM by Daniel D. Polsby & Don B. Kates, Jr.
An analysis and refutation of the idea that the prevalence of firearms spurs crime and violence rates.

http://www.davekopel.com/2A/LawRev/ShallIssue.htm#c35
The Wild West, or "What if everyone carried a handgun?"
Excerpts from Roger McGrath's book "Gunfighters, Highwaymen, & Vigilantes", which examines records from actual old West towns and discovers that while mutual homicide by drunks in taverns was extremely common, violent crime was otherwise surprisingly rare by modern urban standards.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/29/us-philippines-guns-idUSBRE86S00S20120729
Philippine Gun Makers
On the flourishing underground manufacture of firearms in the Philippines, a caution to anyone who thinks a gun ban could actually eliminate guns.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/fortunes/rkba.html
Quotes on the Right to Bear Arms
A compilation of pro-gun quotes by noteworthy people.