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    Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea

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    Author(s)
    Horowitz, Joshua
    Anderson, Casey
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Number
    100893
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    When gun enthusiasts talk about constitutional liberties guaranteed by the Second Amendment, they are referring to freedom in a general sense, but they also have something more specific in mind---freedom from government oppression. They argue that the only way to keep federal authority in check is to arm individual citizens who can, if necessary, defend themselves from an aggressive government. In the past decade, this view of the proper relationship between government and individual rights and the insistence on a role for private violence in a democracy has been co-opted by the conservative movement. As a result, it has spread beyond extreme militia groups to influence state and national policy. In Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea, Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson set the record straight. They challenge the proposition that more guns equal more freedom and expose Insurrectionism as a true threat to freedom in the United States today.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30235
    Keywords
    Political Science; Democracy; Gun politics in the United States; Insurrectionary anarchism; National Rifle Association; Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
    DOI
    10.3998/mpub.180934
    ISBN
    9780472900886
    OCN
    646812281
    Publisher
    University of Michigan Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.press.umich.edu/
    Publication date and place
    Ann Arbor, 2009-04-29
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched - 100893 - KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Democracy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy; Gun politics in the United States - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_States; Insurrectionary anarchism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrectionary_anarchism; National Rifle Association - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association; Second Amendment to the United States Constitution - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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