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The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment

THOM HARTMANN HIDDEN HIST SER: GUNS AND SECOND AMENDMNT

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<P>The author, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, looks at the real history of guns in America and what we can do to limit both their lethal impact and the power of the gun lobby. Taking his typically in-depth, historically informed view, he examines the brutal role guns have played in American history, from the genocide of the Native Americans to the enforcement of slavery (Slave Patrols are in fact the Second Amendment's “well-regulated militias”) and the racist post–Civil War social order. He shows how the NRA and conservative Supreme Court justices used specious logic to invent a virtually unlimited individual right to own guns, which has enabled the ever-growing number of mass shootings in the United States. But he also identifies a handful of powerful, commonsense solutions that would break the power of the gun lobby and restore the understanding of the Second Amendment that the Framers of the Constitution intended. This is the kind of brief, brilliant analysis for which this author is justly renowned.</P>

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Front Cover.
Praise for The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Foreword.
Preface.
Introduction: The Social Cost of Guns.
1: The Unholy Alliance of Racism, Genocide, and Guns.
2: The Sanitized History of America.
3: The Roots of American Gun Culture in the &#x201C;Discovery&#x201D; of America.
4: From Columbus to Jamestown.
5: From Genocide to Slavery.
6: Early Hints toward the Second Amendment.
7: Gun Culture&#x2019;s Ebb and Flow.
8: How Slavery Laid the Foundation of the Second Amendment.
9: Gun Culture Enshrined: The Second Amendment.
10: A Constitutional Rorschach Ploy: Limits on Slavery?.
11: How Europe&#x2019;s History of Mercenaries and Military Coups Shaped the Second Amendment.
12: How Fears of Abolition Shaped the Second Amendment.
13: The Myth of the Well-Armed Cowboy.
14: The Gunshot That Ended Reconstruction.
15: The Failure of Reconstruction and the Rise of the Klan.
16: Racists Turn Open Carry into the New White Hood.
17: Copwatching and Its Connection to Gun Control.
18: One Sunny August Day in Texas.
19: 1966: A Turning Point in America&#x2019;s Gun Culture.
20: Guns, Militarism, and the War on Drugs.
21: Heller: Reinterpreting the Second Amendment.
22: Political Corruption Underwrites America&#x2019;s Gun-Control Nightmare.
23: Gun-Control Activists Are Confronting Only the Tip of the Iceberg.
24: Neoliberalism Drives Inequality; Inequality Drives Mass Murder.
25: Weapons of War on America&#x2019;s Streets.
26: Semiautomatic Weapons.
27: What America Learned from Cars&#x2014;and How to Apply It to Guns.
28: Gun Manufacturing in the 21st Century: 3-D Printing.
29: Well-Regulated Smart Guns Are Here.
30: Addressing Racism to Reduce Gun Violence.
31: Learning from Other Nations.
Notes.
Acknowledgments.
Index.
About the Author.
Books by Thom Hartmann.
Publisher&#x2019;s Note.

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