Living with guns
Subtitle: a liberal's case for the Second Amendment
By: Craig Whitney
Publisher: Public Affairs
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781610391696; 9781610391702
Subjects: United States; LAW / Civil Rights; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights; Firearms; Gun control; Law and legislation; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Law Enforcement
Description: "America's war over gun control has raged since the 1960s. In 2008, the Supreme Court startled the left by concluding that with the Second Amendment the founders elevated "above all other interests" the right to bear arms "in defense of hearth and home." Liberals feared the NRA would succeed in rolling back regulations nationwide. Discussion about guns in America has been stalemated, shortcircuited, and dominated by rigidly and mutually intolerant ideologies. Yet we may be closer to a solution than either side may imagine.In Living With Guns, veteran New York Times editor Craig Whitney carefully reexamines America's relationship with guns, showing how guns are an important part of American culture. The earliest colonists needed them to survive. We have nearly 300 million of them today. Trying to restrict gun ownership doesn't effectively deter crime--we need to get serious about what actually works. Whitney shows that, if we focus on controlling violence rather than guns themselves, the Second Amendment may not be so lethal as the left would like to think"--

"A longtime New York Times editor reexamines America's long relationship with guns, finding less than meets the eye in arguments for greater gun regulation"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.