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The Benefits of Gun Ownership |
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The Benefits of Guns for Personal Self-Defense |
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Basic Self Defense Principles |
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The Effectiveness of Guns for Self-Defense |
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Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America |
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How Many Defensive Gun Uses (DGUs)? |
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12 | (1) |
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Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self Defense with a Gun |
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13 | (13) |
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The Gun Debate's New Mythical Number: How Many Defensive Uses Per Year? |
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26 | (7) |
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Gun Ownership and Carrying as a Deterrent to Crime |
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33 | (20) |
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Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms |
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34 | (3) |
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37 | (1) |
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More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws |
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38 | (10) |
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``Lotts'' More Guns and Other Fallacies Infecting the Gun Control Debate |
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48 | (5) |
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53 | (7) |
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60 | (53) |
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Homicides and Other Intentional Shootings |
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61 | (17) |
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Firearms and Violence: Interpreting the Connection |
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63 | (15) |
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78 | (13) |
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The Public Health Case for the Safe Storage of Firearms: Adolescent Suicides Add One More ``Smoking Gun'' |
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82 | (9) |
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91 | (12) |
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Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control |
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91 | (12) |
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The Financial Costs of Firearms Crime |
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103 | (3) |
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106 | (7) |
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Fear of Crime in the United States: Avenues for Research and Policy |
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106 | (7) |
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Philosophical Roots of the Right to Arms and of Opposition to That Right |
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113 | (42) |
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Self-Defense as a Natural Right |
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113 | (9) |
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In Defence of Titus Annius Milo |
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114 | (1) |
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The Rights of War and Peace |
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115 | (1) |
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116 | (1) |
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Second Treatise on Government |
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116 | (3) |
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119 | (3) |
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Arms Bearing as an Incident of Citizenship |
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122 | (8) |
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122 | (1) |
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123 | (2) |
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Letter to Samuel Kercheval (July 12, 1816) |
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125 | (1) |
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Advice to the Privileged Orders |
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126 | (4) |
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The Propensity of Absolute Rulers to Disarm Their Subjects |
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130 | (7) |
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130 | (1) |
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131 | (1) |
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132 | (1) |
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132 | (1) |
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The Six Bookes of a Commonweale |
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133 | (1) |
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134 | (3) |
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The Citizen Militia as Dual Safeguard against Tyranny and Foreign Invasion |
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137 | (10) |
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137 | (2) |
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A Discourse of Government with Relation to Militias |
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139 | (2) |
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141 | (6) |
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Doubts about the Efficacy of Militias |
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147 | (8) |
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations |
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147 | (4) |
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151 | (4) |
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The Right to Arms in the Second Amendment and State Constitutions: Cases and Commentary |
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155 | (79) |
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The Second Amendment in the Supreme Court |
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156 | (21) |
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Presser v. Illinois, 116 U.S. 252 (1886) |
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158 | (5) |
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United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939) |
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163 | (14) |
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The Second Amendment in Lower Federal Courts |
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177 | (12) |
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Hickman v. Block, 81 F. 3d 98 (1996) |
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177 | (4) |
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United States v. Emerson, 46 F. Supp. 2d 598 (N.D. Tex. 1999) |
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181 | (8) |
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Scholarly Commentary on the Second Amendment |
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189 | (23) |
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A Critical Guide to the Second Amendment |
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190 | (14) |
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Commonplace or Anachronism: The Standard Model, the Second Amendment, and the Problem of History in Contemporary Constitutional Theory |
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204 | (8) |
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The Right to Keep and Bear Arms under State Constitutions |
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212 | (22) |
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Andrews v. State, 50 Tennessee (3 Heisk.) 165 (1871) |
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213 | (5) |
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City of Salina v. Blaksley, 83 P. 619 (Kans. 1905) |
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218 | (4) |
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State v. Kessler, 614 P. 2d 94 (Ore. 1980) |
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222 | (5) |
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Arnold v. City of Cleveland 616 N.E. 2d 163 (Ohio 1993) |
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227 | (7) |
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Guns and Identity: Race, Gender, Class, and Culture |
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234 | (54) |
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235 | (23) |
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The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration |
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236 | (9) |
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Race, Riots, and Guns-Carl T. Bogus |
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245 | (8) |
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. A. A. Arms Inc. et al. |
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253 | (2) |
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Guns Don't Kill Black People, Other Blacks Do |
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255 | (3) |
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258 | (18) |
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Why Annie Can't Get Her Gun: A Feminist Perspective on the Second Amendment |
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258 | (9) |
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Why Packing a Pistol Perpetuates Patriarchy |
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267 | (9) |
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276 | (12) |
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Submission Is Not the Answer: Lethal Violence, Microcultures of Criminal Violence and the Right to Self-Defense |
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277 | (3) |
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Firearms Ownership by Class and Culture |
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280 | (3) |
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Lethal Violence Victimization by Class and Culture |
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283 | (5) |
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288 | (39) |
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Are Guns Defective Products on the Theory That Their Risk to Society Outweighs Their Usefulness? |
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289 | (19) |
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Handguns as Products Unreasonably Dangerous Per Se |
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291 | (11) |
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Rejecting the ``Whipping-Boy'' Approach to Tort Law: Well-Made Handguns Are Not Defective Products |
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302 | (6) |
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Are Guns Defective Products If They Can Be Made Safer? |
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308 | (12) |
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A Public Health Approach to Regulating Firearms as Consumer Products |
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308 | (12) |
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Have Gun Manufacturers Negligently Marketed Guns to Criminals? |
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320 | (7) |
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Merrill v. Navegar, Inc. 89 Calif. Rptr. 2d 146 (Calif. Ct. App. 1999), reversed 110 Calif. Rptr. 2d 370 (Calif. 2001) |
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327 | (29) |
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Government Plaintiff Litigation |
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334 | (22) |
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Municipal Firearm Litigation: III Conceived from Any Angle |
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337 | (10) |
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The Smith & Wesson Settlement |
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347 | (8) |
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355 | (1) |
| Permissions |
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356 | (2) |
| Index |
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358 | (10) |
| About the Editors |
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