The Gun Dilemma

Author : Robert J. Spitzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780197643747

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The Gun Dilemma by Robert J. Spitzer Pdf

An informed and sophisticated look at the current debate between gun laws and gun rights in America. Contemporary gun controversies are deeply rooted in our history, yet much of that history is unknown, ignored, or distorted. This is all the more important because a new gun rights movement is pressing to expand the definition of gun rights well beyond the standard set by the Supreme Court in its landmark, controversial Heller ruling from 2008. These activists' efforts have found a receptive audience among a new generation of very conservative federal judges cultivated in part for their professed adherence to the doctrine of constitutional Originalism and fealty to an expansive reading of gun rights. In The Gun Dilemma, Robert J. Spitzer examines this "gun rights 2.0" movement in the light of a host of gun controversies: assault weapons, ammunition magazines, silencers, public gun brandishing and display, and the emergent Second Amendment sanctuary movement. Given the importance of actual gun law history to this debate, Spitzer draws from the historical record to illuminate several contemporary and emergent gun controversies that may well make their way to the Supreme Court. Revealing and illuminating as that history is, he argues that we should not be straitjacketed by that history, but rather informed by it as the nation struggles with how to frame its gun policies. By utilizing novel information sources to explore both gun law history and current debates, The Gun Dilemma provides an informed and sophisticated challenge to the ascendant originalists who appear to be set on enshrining in law a radical libertarian vision of gun rights.

Author : Lee Kennett,James Anderson
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1975-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036162548

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The Gun in America by Lee Kennett,James Anderson Pdf

Straight from the frontier of scientific investigation . . . Nowhere is creative scientific talent busier than in the world of inorganic chemistry. And the respected Progress in Inorganic Chemistry series has long served as an exciting showcase for new research in this area. With contributions from internationally renowned chemists, this latest volume reports the most recent advances in the field, providing a fascinating window on the emerging state of the science. "This series is distinguished not only by its scope and breadth, but also by the depth and quality of the reviews."-Journal of the American Chemical Society. "[This series] has won a deservedly honored place on the bookshelf of the chemist attempting to keep afloat in the torrent of original papers on inorganic chemistry."-Chemistry in Britain. CONTENTS OF VOLUME 48: * Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of Organic-Inorganic Perovskites and Related Materials (David B. Mitzi, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York). * Transition Metals in Polymeric ?1 -Conjugated Organic Frameworks (Richard P. Kingsborough and Timothy M. Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts). * The Transition Metal Coordination Chemistry of Hemilabile Ligands (Caroline S. Slone, Dana A. Weinberger, and Chad A. Mirkin, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois). * Organometallic Fluorides of the Main Group Metals Containing the C-M-F Fragment (Balaji R. Jagirdar, Eamonn F. Murphy, and Herbert W. Roesky, Universit't G'ttingen, Germany). * Coordination Complex Impregnated Molecular Sieves-Synthesis, Characterization, Reactivity, and Catalysis (Partha P. Paul, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas). * Advances in Metal Boryl and Metal-Mediated B-X Activation Chemistry (Milton R. Smith III, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan).

Author : Lee Kennett,James LaVerne Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:476586748

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The Gun in America by Lee Kennett,James LaVerne Anderson Pdf

Author : Philip J. Cook,Kristin A. Goss
Publisher : What Everyone Needs To Know (R)
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199338993

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The Gun Debate by Philip J. Cook,Kristin A. Goss Pdf

"The authors explore the origins of the American gun culture and the makeup of both the gun rights and gun control movements. Written in question-and-answer format, the book will help readers make sense of the ideologically driven statistics and slogans that characterize our national conversation on firearms."--Publisher's description.

Author : Lee Nisbet
Publisher : Contemporary Issues (Prometheu
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015050749913

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The Gun Control Debate by Lee Nisbet Pdf

"Thought provoking, should help bring balance and accuracy to the debate". -- Booklist

Author : Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780872867246

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Loaded by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Pdf

A provocative, timely, and deeply-researched history of gun culture and how it reflects race and power in the United States

Author : Robert J. Spitzer
Publisher : C Q Press College
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015058134340

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The Politics of Gun Control by Robert J. Spitzer Pdf

This work offers wide-ranging coverage of the American gun culture, the history and meaning of Second Amendment, the criminological consequences of guns, the policy-making roles of Congress, the presidency, the bureaucracy, interest groups, public opinion and the political parties.

Author : Kathy Stearman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781643137315

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It's Not About the Gun by Kathy Stearman Pdf

After spending more than twenty-years years as a Special Agent with the FBI, Kathy Stearman recounts the global experiences that shaped her life—and the mixed feelings that she now holds about the sacrifices she had to make to survive in a man’s world. When former FBI Agent Kathy Stearman read in the New York Times that sixteen women were suing the FBI for discrimination at the training academy, she was surprised to see the women come forward—no one ever had before. But the truth behind their accusations resonated. After a twenty-six-year career in the Bureau, Kathy Stearman knows from personal experience that this type of behavior has been prevalent for decades. Stearman’s It’s Not About the Gun examines the influence of attitude and gender in her journey to becoming FBI Legal Attaché, the most senior FBI representative in a foreign office. When she entered the FBI Academy in 1987, Stearman was one of about 600 women in a force of 10,000 agents. While there, she evolved into an assertive woman, working her way up the ranks and across the globe to hold positions that very few women have held before. And yet, even at the height of her career, Stearman had to check herself to make sure that she never appeared weak, inferior, or afraid. The accepted attitude for women in power has long been cool, calm, and in control—and sometimes that means coming across as cold and emotionless. Stearman changed for the FBI, but she longs for a different path for future women of the Bureau. If the system changes, then women can remain constant, valuing their female identity and nurturing the people they truly are. In It's Not About the Gun, Stearman describes how she was viewed as a woman and an American overseas, and how her perception of her country and the FBI, observed from the optics of distance, has evolved.

Author : C. J. Chivers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743271738

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The Gun by C. J. Chivers Pdf

Traces the history of the AK-47 assault rifle, from its inception to its use by more than fifty national armies around the world, to its role in modern-day Afghanistan, discussing how the deadly weapon has helped alter world history.

Author : Lisa Fisher,Craig Hovey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793625144

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Understanding America's Gun Culture by Lisa Fisher,Craig Hovey Pdf

Understanding America's Gun Culture focuses on building understanding of some of the issues associated with U.S. gun culture and the contemporary debate about the availability and use of guns. This edited volume is unique in that it draws on a wide variety of disciplines and presents perspectives on both sides of the debate. Contributors hail from the academic disciplines of history, social work, criminal justice, sociology, religion, and theological ethics as well as policy agencies. Some chapters examine the issues social-psychologically to help readers better understand dynamics within the debate. Others pose important ethical and philosophical questions about gun culture. Still others address practical policy solutions for enhancing gun safety and minimizing gun violence, even bringing in international perspectives. This second edition includes literature published in the last two years and two new chapters, one focusing on gender within gun culture and another that features a conversation between the editors and an ethnographic researcher with broad expertise in gun culture and research and policy trends. Together, the chapters create a thought-provoking compilation that offers insightful findings, considers theoretical and practical implications, and invites further exploration of the topic.

Author : Przemysław Kaczmarek,Krzysztof J. Kaleta,Paweł Łabieniec,Marcin Pieniążek,Paweł Skuczyński,Sebastian Sykuna
Publisher : Wydawnictwo C.H.Beck
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788381580403

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The Concept of Dilemma in Legal and Judicial Ethics by Przemysław Kaczmarek,Krzysztof J. Kaleta,Paweł Łabieniec,Marcin Pieniążek,Paweł Skuczyński,Sebastian Sykuna Pdf

Judges and lawyers have to shape their moral competences in order to maintain their professional ethics at a high standard if they want to effectively meet the challenges that modern society will throw at them. This requirement is due to the growing expectation that they will be socially and morally responsible for the law. Thus, the need to place ethics at the heart of legal education, and to make ethical reflection pervasive in academic courses, becomes more obvious every day. Using the concept and examples of moral dilemmas is a way of facilitating this task. The main purpose of this book is to analyse the concept of moral dilemma in context of judicial and legal ethics, and to provide material for legal education. The structure of this book is designed with this double aim in mind. The theoretical part presents the concept of dilemmas on grounds of metaethics and the perspectives for its application in a professional legal context. The former encompasses situations of conflict of duties or obligations, in which the choice of one conduct necessarily prevents a different conduct, and therefore leads to an unacceptable outcome. Hence, the situation of dilemma always involves an issue of moral responsibility and the problem of “dirty hands”. How such situations are present in legal practice and how to deal with them is the main concern of this part. The considerations are divided into three levels of reflection – deontological, axiological, and moral responsibility. The practical part of the book contains an overview of 150 dilemmas that can be useful in legal ethics or other legal courses. The dilemmas are divided into chapters covering the following branches of law: criminal law, civil and commercial law, family and custody law, labour and social security law, and constitutional law. Every dilemma presents a description of the facts, a reconstruction of dilemma, its standard solution and some critical remarks from a meta-ethical perspective. The dilemmas cover situations regularly met in everyday practice, as well as examples of more exceptional challenges in connection with constitutional crises that have occurred in Poland in recent years.

Author : David Carr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471108426

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The Night of the Gun by David Carr Pdf

David Carr was an addict for more than twenty years -- first dope, then coke, then finally crack -- before the prospect of losing his newborn twins made him sober up in a bid to win custody from their crack-dealer mother. Once recovered, he found that his recollection of his 'lost' years differed -- sometimes radically -- from that of his family and friends. The night, for example, his best friend pulled a gun on him. 'No,' said the friend (to David's horror, as a lifelong pacifist), 'It was you that had the gun.' Using all his skills as an investigative reporter, he set out to research his own life, interviewing everyone from his parents and his ex-partners to the policemen who arrested him, the doctors who treated him and the lawyers who fought to prove he was fit to have custody of his kids. Unflinchingly honest and beautifully written, the result is both a shocking account of the depths of addiction and a fascinating examination of how -- and why -- our memories deceive us. As David says, we remember the stories we can live with, not the ones that happened.

Author : Katri K. Sieberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662045435

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Criminal Dilemmas by Katri K. Sieberg Pdf

An analysis of criminal behavior from the perspectives of rational choice theory leading to suggestions for a criminal policy. Previous edition sold 900 copies world wide since its release in June 2001.

Author : David Yamane
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476695877

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Gun Curious by David Yamane Pdf

More than ever, it feels like cultural and political divisions over firearms are tearing the United States apart. Guns are an undeniable and contradictory presence in America, both widely owned and controversial. This book does something remarkable: it promotes insight over animosity in understanding the complex reality of guns in America. It challenges firearms skeptics, entertains enthusiasts, and informs the uncommitted by taking readers on a surprising journey inside gun culture. A lifelong liberal from the San Francisco Bay Area, David Yamane became a new gun owner as a 42-year-old and embarked on an immersive twelve-year study of American gun culture. Weaving together his personal experiences and sociological observations to explain why guns make sense to those who own them, he illuminates defensive gun ownership, the risk of negative outcomes associated with firearms, and what responsible gun ownership looks like in the twenty-first century. This book lowers the heat on America's inflamed arguments about firearms and models the civil discussions we desperately need.

Author : Diane E. Levin
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 080774638X

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The War Play Dilemma by Diane E. Levin Pdf

As violence in the media and media-linked toys increases, parents and teachers are also seeing an increase in children's war play. The authors have revised this popular text to provide more practical guidance for working with children to promote creative play, and for positively influencing the lessons about violence children are learning. Using a developmental and sociopolitical viewpoint, the authors examine five possible strategies for resolving the war play dilemma and show which best satisfy both points of view: banning war play; taking a laissez-faire approach; allowing war play with specified limits; actively facilitating war play; and limiting war play while providing alternative ways to work on the issues. New for the Second Edition are: more anecdotal material about adults'' and children's experiences with war play, including examples from both home and school settings; greater emphasis on the impact of media and commercialization on children's war play, including recent trends in media, programming, marketing, and war toys; expanded discussion about the importance of the distinction between imitative and creative war play; and summary boxes of key points directed at teachers or parents. * New information about violent video games, media cross feeding, and gender development and sex-role stereotyping.