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Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment
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This past June, the Supreme Court decided a question at the heart of one of America's most impassioned debates, ruling that individual citizens have the constitutional right to possess guns. With that decision, the District's handgun ban--one of the toughest and most controversial in the nation--was ended. In Gun Control on Trial, journalist Brian Doherty tells the full story behind the landmark District of Columbia v. Heller ruling. With exclusive, behind the scenes access throughout the case, Doherty delved into the issues of this monumental case to provide a compelling look at the inside stories, including: The plaintiffs' fight for the right to protect themselves and their families from violent neighborhoods. The activist lawyers who worked exhaustively to affirm that right. The forces that fought to stop the case, including city officials and the NRA. The story of the Heller case stretches back to long before the decision struck down D.C.'s restrictive gun ban and forward to the future of the political and legal battle over gun control in America. Doherty provides clear, concise explanations of the issues and battles that have driven the gun control debate for decades, detailing how the Heller decision is a new starting point for the gun control debate as it passionately and energetically continues in the years ahead. It's important to note that the Heller decision does not settle every controversy in the gun control debate. It only settles the legal question of whether or not the right to possess weapons under the Second Amendment extends to personal self-defense: it does, writes Doherty. What the Supreme Court decided in Heller may be narrow in its direct and immediate effect; but it's deep in its implications for the relationship between the government and the American people, explains Doherty. It establishes a new shape to the arena in which the legal and political struggle over guns and gun control will be fought. And that fight assuredly continues.
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Pages 126
Dimensions: Length: 0.75" Width: 6.25" Height: 9.25"
Weight: 0.98 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Feb 25, 2009
ISBN 1933995254
EAN 9781933995250
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 | Propaganda, not journalism Sep 27, 2009 |
| When an author is ideologically committed to a cause -- in this case, unfettered gun ownership -- the product is certain to be biased and incomplete. So it is with this book. As John Lott, Jr. points out in an this site review here, the Heller case has a wealth of interesting complexities, one of which is its support for controls on gun ownership, but author Brian Doherty is more interested in preaching a sermon than exploring the issues. | | |  | Nice summary of what really happened in the Heller case Aug 15, 2009 |
As a NRA member, I was shocked to read about how little the NRA had to do with the Heller case!
Although I don't totally agree with the CATO Institute all the time (Libertarian Ideologues), they really came through for us law abiding gun owners.
Now, unfortunately, the NRA is running with the Heller case results as if they had something to do with it.
This is a good book to learn what really happened and why. | | |  | government report Jun 1, 2009 |
I thought that this book was very well written. While it is a bit of a dry read the author does a good job of staying generally objective and supporting his arguments with facts. Overall it is an informative book that presents a good case on a position on the controversial issue of gun control in the United States.
Lauren T. | | | | Weak Book, superficial Mar 8, 2009 |
| The Heller case is an interesting topic. Unfortunately, this book is superficial, though the case's history is more complete than the discussion of the research on guns and crimes. That information on the relationship between guns and crime is extremely thin and not very useful on the central question of gun free zones such as DC. With so much of the Supreme Court case on gun locks, you would think that there would be some mention of the research on the topic. None of the costs of crime in gun free zones. No serious discussion of how crime rates changed in DC after the ban (except for a sentence that could have been taken from one of my op-eds). | | | | Important material crisply delivered. Feb 24, 2009 |
| This book is short but packed with the important details of the issues, the people, and the trial itself. It is accessible for the layman but not lightweight: a quick, fun read on what was arguably the most important Supreme Court decision of this century. While the author is not shy with his own opinion he is not overbearing or overheated as too much of Second Amendment discourse has been. | | | Write your own review about Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment
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