How America Got Its Guns: A History of the Gun Violence Crisis

by William Briggs

Overview

This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826358134
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	05/01/2017
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

William Briggs is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Colorado at Denver.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

1 Guns in America 1

2 The Advantage of Being Armed 15

3 Number Games 27

4 Twenty-Seven Words 41

5 Guns in American Lives 57

6 Interpreting the Second Amendment 75

7 Magic Never Made a Gun 91

8 The Other Amendment 109

9 Playing by the Rules 123

10 Colfax and Cruikshank 133

11 Enforcement! 149

12 A Century Passes 165

13 Carry, Stand, and Defend 181

14 The Court Speaks 201

15 Guns and the Mind 215

16 The Court Speaks Again 235

17 A Year Passes 253

18 Reducing Gun Violence 265

Notes 285

Bibliography 319

Index 323