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E-Books

The Bill of Rights by Linda R. Monk; Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780316417747
Publication Date: 2018-04-10
Confronting Gun Violence in America by Thomas Gabor
ISBN: 9783319337227
Publication Date: 2016-09-27
Courts, Law, and Justice by William J. Chambliss (Editor)
ISBN: 9781412978576
Publication Date: 2011-05-03
Debating Gun Control by David DeGrazia; Lester H. Hunt
ISBN: 9780190251253
Publication Date: 2016-10-14
Americans have a deeply ambivalent relationship to guns. The United States leads all nations in rates of private gun ownership, yet stories of gun tragedies frequent the news, spurring calls for tighter gun regulations.
Gun Ownership and the Second Amendment by Pjeter D. Baldrige
ISBN: 9781606922262
Publication Date: 2009-11-01
This book provides an overview of prior judicial treatment of the Second Amendment, with a focus on the litigation of Colombia versus Heller and the potential impact of its outcome. .
The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment by Thom Hartmann
ISBN: 9781523086016
Publication Date: 2019-06-04
How America Got Its Guns by William Briggs
ISBN: 9780826358134
Publication Date: 2017-05-01
This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned.
Mass Shootings in America by Jaclyn Schildkraut (Editor); Frank DeAngelis (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781440856242
Publication Date: 2018-05-25
School Shootings and the Never Again Movement by Laurie Collier Hillstrom
ISBN: 9781440867514
Publication Date: 2019-03-14
The Second Amendment on Trial by Saul Cornell (Editor); Nathan Kozuskanich (Editor)
ISBN: 9781558499959
Publication Date: 2013-08-09
On the final day of its 2008 term, a sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-to-4 decision striking down the District of Columbia's stringent gun control laws as a violation of the Second Amendment. Reversing almost seventy years of settled precedent, the high court reinterpreted the meaning of the "right of the people to keep and bear arms" to affirm an individual right to own a gun in the home for purposes of self-defense.

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