Ebook: Stand your ground: a history of America's love affair with lethal self-defense
Author: Light Caroline E
- Tags: African Americans--Civil rights, Firearms--Law and legislation--Social aspects--United States, Rassismus, Schusswaffe, Selbstverteidigung, Self-defense (Law)--Social aspects, Self-defense (Law)--Social aspects--United States, Sexismus, Waffenrecht, USA, Self-defense (Law) -- Social aspects -- United States, Firearms -- Law and legislation -- Social aspects -- United States, African Americans -- Civil rights, Self-defense (Law) -- Social aspects, United States
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Beacon Press
- City: United States;USA
- Language: English
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A history of America's Stand Your Ground gun laws, from Reconstruction to Trayvon Martin
After a young, white gunman killed twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, conservative legislators lamented that the tragedy could have been avoided if the schoolteachers had been armed and the classrooms equipped with guns. Similar claims were repeated in the aftermath of other recent shootings—after nine were killed in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and in the aftermath of the massacre in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Despite inevitable questions about gun control, there is a sharp increase in firearm sales in the wake of every mass shooting.
Yet, this kind of DIY-security activism predates the contemporary gun rights movement—and even the stand-your-ground self-defense laws adopted in thirty-three states, or the thirteen million civilians currently licensed to carry concealed firearms. As...
After a young, white gunman killed twenty-six people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, conservative legislators lamented that the tragedy could have been avoided if the schoolteachers had been armed and the classrooms equipped with guns. Similar claims were repeated in the aftermath of other recent shootings—after nine were killed in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and in the aftermath of the massacre in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Despite inevitable questions about gun control, there is a sharp increase in firearm sales in the wake of every mass shooting.
Yet, this kind of DIY-security activism predates the contemporary gun rights movement—and even the stand-your-ground self-defense laws adopted in thirty-three states, or the thirteen million civilians currently licensed to carry concealed firearms. As...
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