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The Great Gun Control War

Robert Leider (Yale): Our Non-Originalist Right to Bear Arms: How Public Opinion Has Shaped the Second Amendment. Reid Golden (Minnesota): Loaded Questions: A Suggested Constitutional Framework for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Clayton E. Cramer (Western Idaho) and Joseph Olson (Hamline): Knives and the Second Amendment. David B. Kopel (Denver): The Great Gun Control War of the 20th Century — And its Lessons for Gun Laws Today. The deadly shooting in Aurora, Colorado is a tragedy — so why don’t we want anything good to come out of it? We’re sorry that 12 people had to die — but we aren’t sorry enough to lift a finger to prevent it from happening again. Where US gun culture meets segregation: Gated communities for the lower middle classes as well as the rich are little frontier towns with their own sheriffs, suspicious of every outsider. Do the suburbs make you selfish? Urban areas have begun to outpace the growth of suburbs — could that be good for America's social ecology? The loneliness scare: Claude Fischer why isolation isn’t a growing problem.