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With Paul Gallant & Joanne D. Eisen
Journal of Law, Economics & Policy, Vol 417, Issue
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2006
http://www.davekopel.com/2A/Foreign/gold-standard-of-gun-control.pdf
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http://www.davekopel.com/2A/Foreign/The-Gold-Standard-of-Gun-Control.htm
This is a book review of Joyce Malcolm's "Guns and Violence: The English Experience." In PDF. In HTML. The review has just been published in a special symposium issue on self-defense.
Liberty Law Review, Volume 2
2007, Forthcoming
http://www.davekopel.com/Religion/Self-defense-in-Asian-religions.pdf
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The Article first examines the Chinese religions of Confucianism and Taoism. Next, Hinduism (including Mohandas Gandhi), Jainism, and Sikhism are treated relatively briefly. Buddhism and its development in various East Asian nations are examined in depth. The Article suggests that--regarding the right and duty of personal defense and community defense--the classical religious philosophy of the Far East has many important similarities to Western religious philosophy, although the two traditions developed independently of each other.
Journal on Firearms & Public Policy 19
(Forthcoming)
2007
http://www.davekopel.com/2A/Foreign/Armed-resistance-to-the-holocaust.pdf
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Contrary to myth of Jewish passivity, many Jews did fight back during the Holocaust. They shut down the extermination camp at Sobibor, rose up in the Warsaw Ghetto, and fought in the woods and swamps all over Eastern Europe. Indeed, Jews resisted at a higher rate than did any other population under Nazi rule. The experience of the Holocaust shows why Jews, and all people of good will, should support the right of potential genocide victims to possess defensive arms, and refutes the notion that violence is necessarily immoral.
America's First Freedom
July, 2007
http://www.davekopel.org/2A/Mags/DC-Lawsuit.pdf
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Here is Kopel's analysis of the D.C. Circuit Court's denial of the city's petition for rehearing en banc.
Paul Gallant, with David B. Kopel and Joanne D.
Eisen
America's 1st Freedom
May, 2007
What possible motive could some arrogant anti-gun newspapers have for publishing the names of Right-to-Carry permit holders?
David Hardy
YouTube
July 9, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/davidthardy
YouTube excerpts from Hardy's excellent new movie, including some footage of an interview with Kopel.
Wall Street Journal
18. April 2007
http://www.davekopel.org/Deutsch/Zur-Tragodie-von-Virginia-Tech.htm
German translation of Kopel's Wall Street Journal article on Virginia Tech and the dangers of "gun-free" zones.
Io sparo che me la cavo: i Libri di Enclave
2007
http://tinyurl.com/2ncrce
Here is a new e-book version of an Italian book on the right to arms. Includes an Italian version of Kopel's article "What if we had taken Columbine seriously?"
Christopher J. Schmidt
William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, Vol. 15,
J. 983
February, 2007
http://www.davekopel.org/2A/OthWr/AN-INTERNATIONAL-HUMAN-RIGHT-TO-KEEP-AND-BEAR-ARMS.htm
"This ground-breaking article argues that international law can and should be read to support a right to arms.
Colin Greenwood
The Second Amendment Project of the Shooting
Sports Trust and the Independence Institute
April, 2007
http://www.davekopel.org/2A/Foreign/Critique-of-Home-Office-Research-Study-298.htm
A careful dissection of a deeply flawed British government study promoting more repressive laws against gun owners, notwithstanding the failures of previous laws.
Marnie O'Neill
The Sunday Telegraph (AU)
May 06, 2007
http://www.news.com.au/sundaytelegraph/story/0,22049,21678380-5006009,00.html
"Sydney is in the grip of a wave of gun crime, with a weapon fired or used to menace innocent residents six days in every seven."
Gary Mauser
The Fraser Institute
July 5, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2djbve
"This paper is a timely effort to evaluate the effectiveness of the 1995 firearm legislation."
Iain Marlow, San Grewal, and Thulasi Srikanthan
Toronto Star (Canada)
May 24, 2007
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/217248
"In a grim first for Toronto, a boy is gunned down inside his school."
Tonda MacCharles
Toronto Star (Canada)
July 2, 2007
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/231587
"A federally commissioned poll of "stakeholders" selected by the government to comment on potential changes to gun control found more opposition than support for tighter restrictions."
Canadian Press
Toronto Star (Canada)
May 23, 2007
http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/217023
Here is a list of firearms-related violence in Canada's schools over that time period.
Susan Delacourt
The Toronto Star (Canada)
May 28, 2007
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/218332
This story reads very much like an opinion column, with a 'fright' photograph for illustration as it questions the make-up of the Tory government's panel evaluating the success of Canada's multi-billion dollar gun registry in preventing crime.
Press Release
The European Parliament
June 27, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2m6cwg
"New measures to tighten up gun controls, including restricting their sale over the web, were demanded by the Internal Market Committee on 27 June. In a co-decision report, MEPs call for information on guns, including imports from third countries, to be stored in national databases for 20 years, and shared among Member States. Member States would be expected to report back to Parliament, as well as the Commission, on measures giving effect to this law."
The Yomiuri Shimbun
June 26, 2007
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070626TDY02008.htm
"Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered relevant government offices to tighten gun control in May, in light of a number of incidents such as the fatal shooting of Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito in April."
Bart Skelton
Guns & Ammo
June, 2007
http://www.gunsandammomag.com/gun_columns/border/0706/
"Gun ownership in Mexico is an exclusive club. You must be either wealthy or a criminal, or both. Permits for firearms can be obtained, however, after much bureaucratic nonsense that can only be avoided by those with connections or a monetary favor, a.k.a., mordida."
Jonathan Wynne Jones
The Sunday Telegraph (UK)
May 27, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/259jp6
"Anti-gun campaigners have accused the Government of making a U-turn on firearms after a minister urged teenagers to take up shooting to improve their behaviour."
"Theodore Dalrymple"
City Journal
April 9, 2007
http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-04-09td.html
"Britain is experiencing a spate of murders that suggests a population increasingly unable, or unwilling, to control itself."
The Guardian
July 7, 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gun/0,,178412,00.html
This page is an ongoing complilation of crime stories involving firearms in the United Kingdom.
David Barrett
The Independent (UK)
June 26, 2007
"An extra two million violent crimes a year are committed in Britain than previously thought because of a bizarre distortion in the Government's flagship crime figures, it was claimed yesterday."
Craig Gordon
Newsday
May 23, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2b9q82
"Giuliani's days as a crusading anti-gun mayor are behind him now that he's running for president, and Wednesday he staked out a simple test for concealed-carry permits, which are tightly controlled in New York..."
Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF
The Hill
May 23, 2007
"When it authorized restrictions on public access and use of gun trace data, Congress correctly understood that this sensitive information was a crime-fighting tool, always intended solely for use by law enforcement and that, in the wrong hands, it could be recklessly misused. Those legitimate concerns are still valid today. Congress should continue to put public safety and the lives of law enforcement ahead of gun control politics and reauthorize the Tiahrt Amendment."
Russ Rizzo
The Salt Lake Tribune
May 17, 2007
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5545445
"The gun originally was bought legally at a store by a man out of state and was stolen, Dyer said. Then it changed hands six or seven times among three people before reaching Talovic, Dyer said."
Kevin Leffler
A Chainsaw Productions Film
2005
http://www.shootingmichaelmoore.com/
"Join Michael Moore's home town buddy, Kevin Leffler, in uncovering the depths of Moore's deceit- from committing environmental violations to owning the stock of the worlds largest drug company, Pfizer to screwing over the financially poor "stars" of his past movies. You won't believe how Moore also owned Dick Cheney's favorite stock, Halliburton!"
Nathan Burchfiel
CNSNews.com
July 5, 2007
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200707/NAT20070705a.html
"An Ohio newspaper's decision to publish the non-public records of concealed carry permit holders drew a strong response, and one gun rights advocacy group published personal but public information about the newspaper's editor."
Associated Press (OH)
July 5, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/297vre
"In an effort to bring back a tradition from his own childhood, an 84-year-old man has created a BB gun shooting range for children."
Sandy Froman
World Net Daily
May 17, 2007
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55737
"There are core values in common between gun ownership and homeschooling. These commonalities are things you and I applaud, but those who think big government is the solution to every problem cannot accept it." Froman is a former president of the National Rifle Association.
Fredrick Kunkle and Tim Craig
Washington Post
May 18, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2zdmnc
At a 'Bloomberg Gun Raffle' opponents and proponents of civilian firearms ownership exchanged strong opinions about the causes and results of the Virginia Tech shootings.
Tom Gresham
Press Release
May 25, 2007
http://www.golfbusinesswire.com/shooting_wire_release.html?releaseID=117032
"Radio host and television personality Tom Gresham has relaunched his 'Truth Squad' a group of his listeners who are dedicated to correcting the inaccuracies frequently passed off as fact in mainstream media. As Gresham says 'a lie left unchallenged becomes the truth.'"
The Shooting Wire
May 30, 2007
http://www.shootingwire.com/shooting_wire.html?date=2007-05-30
http://www.montgomery.cc.nc.us/newsshootingsports.htm
"A new two-year associates program offered by North Carolina's Montgomery Community College will give graduates an inside track on careers in the shooting and hunting sports. The curriculum is also structured to also allow students outside North Carolina to participate in all but one portion of the program online, making it considerably more affordable to obtain that degree." For the program itself at the College, see here. http://www.montgomery.cc.nc.us/newsshootingsports.htm
Press Release
The Outdoor Channel
July 2, 2007
http://www.golfbusinesswire.com/shooting_wire_release.html?releaseID=118347
"Due to its popularity, Personal Defense Television Season 1 is returning to Outdoor Channel for another run. Beginning this week, you will be able to catch your favorite episodes of PDTV again. The show will air for 13 weeks on Outdoor Channel and in stunning HD on Outdoor Channel 2HD."
Press Release
The Illinois State Rifle and Pistol Association
May 29, 2007
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,112673.shtml
"During an address at an anti-gun rally in front of Chuck's, Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina's Church, exhorted the crowd to 'drag' shop owner, John Riggio, from his shop 'like a rat' and 'snuff' him."
Billie Louden
The Denver Post
May 12, 2007
http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_5875002
"We have got to stop sticking our heads and our children's heads in the sand, pretending evil does not exist. Unless we recover the fight-back spirit buried inside ourselves and pass it own to our kids, we are doomed. No one can predict or stop the next horrendous act that will surely come to be. What we can do is assure that our survival instincts will lower the number of victims." 'Colorado Voices' columnist Billie Louden is a deputy sheriff in Denver and an Army veteran.
Sara Reed
Fort Collins Coloradoan
May 13, 2007
http://www.9news.com/rss/article.aspx?storyid=69940
"Police at the University of Northern Colorado and the University of Colorado say allowing concealed weapons on campus is more trouble than its worth, but Colorado State University is sticking to its policy that allows permit-holders to carry their guns."
Jordan Blum
The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
May 31, 2007
"An attempt to close a state 'loophole' that allows firearms in college dorms was soundly defeated Wednesday in a House committee after several Second Amendment advocates spoke against it."
Fredrick Kunkle
The Washington Post
June 14, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/12/AR2007061202408.html
"Soon after Virginia Tech's mass shooting, some George Mason University students formed a group to do something about guns on campus: They want the right to carry them."
Gabriel McVey
The Collegiate Times
June 20, 2007
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/news/1/ARTICLE/9117/2007-06-20.html
"A great deal of evaluation, and even second-guessing, have been going on concerning the events of April 16." The article emphasizes those opposed.
John Longenecker
News by Us: Not News Bias
June 25, 2007
http://newsbyus.com/more.php?id=8762_0_1_0_M
Here is a reaction to the above article, making the case for legal possession of concealed firearms on college campuses.
O.K. Carter
The Houston Star-Telegram
May 3, 2007
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/columnists/ok_carter//v-print/story/89464.html
Texas governor Rick Perry is urging the State Legislature to allow holders of concealed carry permits to possess their weapons without limits as to where.
Phillip Morris
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
May 15, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2627ud
"They say the definition of a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. DeBose's CCW application will bear some witness to that notion."
Kristen Mack and Kevin Moran
The Houston Chronicle
July 10, 2007
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4955069.html
Texas State Rep. Borris Miles shot and wounded a man stealing copper pipe from a home he was building. Miles voted earlier this year against a bill to expand Texans' rights to defend themselves with deadly force.
World Net Daily
July 7, 2007
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56556
"The federal government is considering a series of new rules that would apply to workplaces where "explosives" are handled, giving rise to a concern that the restrictions could be used to limit--or eliminate--reasonable access to firearms ammunition."
Press Release
The NRA Institute for Legislative Action
July 13, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/3d63an
Here is the NRA-ILA's analysis of the proposed new regulation: "These provisions do not reflect standard practices in the shipping industry, and many carriers would probably refuse to ship ammunition under these rules." OSHA is now re-casting the proposed changes.
Press Release
The National Shooting Sports Foundation
June 28, 2007
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,131418.shtml
The Senate's equivalent of the Tiahrt Amendment passed the Senate Appropriations Committee by a 19 - 10 vote.
Lara Jakes Jordan
Associated Press
July 3, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2bgrw2
"The ATF no longer routinely checks addresses of some buyers at gun shows after being accused of chilling sales at one show in 2005, the Justice Department reported Monday."
Lara Jakes Jordan
Associated Press
July 3, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2ngjxu
"An ATF spokesman agreed with the report's findings, calling the report 'an objective assessment of ATF's investigative operations at gun shows.'"
Jeffrey Anderson
The L.A. Weekly
June 1, 2007
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/did-city-hall-fund-a-gun-runner/16534/
A man currently under arrest for gun-running was the founder of a group called 'No Guns,' which the Los Angeles city goverment subsidized to the amount of $1.5 million.
Vail Daily News
May 17, 2007
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20070517/NEWS/70517042
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter signed a bill disallowing residents and visitors to Colorado to use concealed carry permits granted by a state in which they do not reside.
Press Release
State of Connecticut, Office of the Governor
June 24, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/29e32s
"Governor M. Jodi Rell has signed a bill to require gun owners to report their guns lost or stolen within 72-hours of discovering them missing."
Deanna Bellandi
Associated Press (IL)
July 9, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/3xmm38
"Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried Monday to change the subject from the state budget stalemate by urging the Illinois House to pass a gun-control measure..."
Associated Press (IA)
May 23, 2007
http://mydiscountstation.com/blog/?p=64
"The company is currently based in Hillsdale, Ill., but its owner, Les Baer, decided to move after Illinois lawmakers proposed a ban on the distribution, sales and manufacturing of semiautomatic weapons."
John Wagner and Lisa Rein
The Washington Post
May 17, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2s4o9n
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley vetoed a bill that would have repealed a provision of existing law that required law enforcement agencies to destroy old guns or transfer them to another police force.
Associated Press
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
July 4, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/376hqf
Gov. Matt Blunt has signed legislation allowing Missourians to kill intruders without fear of prosecution or lawsuits, as well as removing a requirement for state residents to obtain a permit from their county sheriff to own a handgun. The law also included mental health records in the state's firearms purchase eligibility database, reflecting the Virginia Tech shootings.
NBC-5 (Dallas, TX)
May 23, 2007
http://www.nbc5i.com/news/13372082/detail.html
"The Dallas City Council unanimously approved a toy gun ban on Wednesday, but the current version isn't nearly as strong as earlier proposals."
Associated Press (VA)
May 1, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/325q6g
"Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Monday he has closed the loophole that allowed a mentally disturbed Virginia Tech student to acquire the guns he used to kill 32 students and faculty members." The blog site that preserved this story, The Black Flag Cafe, has some interesting and thoughtful commentary on this story and the events behind it.
Carol D. Leonnig
The Washington Post
May 17, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/yvzztr
"D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty must make a risky choice about the District's gun ban: defend it before the Supreme Court or write new, looser laws governing how city residents can keep guns in their homes. As he wades into a high-stakes debate over the Second Amendment, the new mayor of the nation's capital faces the possibility that the city could lose the case and undercut decades of hard-fought gun-control legislation across the country."
Sandy Froman
World Net Daily
June 28, 2007
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56407
Here is the former NRA president's take on the Supreme Court's recent decision striking down some provisions of the McCain-Feingold Campaign reform legislation.
Adam Liptak
The New York Times
May 6, 2007
http://www.lexisone.com/news/nlibrary/n050707a.html
"In March, for the first time in the nation's history, a federal appeals court struck down a gun control law on Second Amendment grounds. Only a few decades ago, the decision would have been unimaginable."
Ben Neary
Associated Press (WY)
May 30, 2007
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/05/31/news/wyoming/50-gun.txt
"Wyoming will appeal in federal court to try to defend a state law that allows some people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence to regain their right to own firearms."
Press Release
The National Shooting Sports Foundation
May 4, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/yu9dw7
"'The study proved that the patented technology is 'flawed' and 'does not work well for all guns and ammunition.'"
Michael J. Sullivan
Scripps Howard News Service
April 30, 2007
http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/22041
The acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives explains in this piece the uses and limits of firearms tracing data in investigating crimes and criminals such as those involved in the Virginia Tech shootings.
ChildTrends Databank
August 15, 2006
http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/pdf/19_PDF.pdf
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"The percentage of high school students carrying weapons in the past 30 days declined from 26 percent to 17 percent between 1991 and 1999, and since then has risen slightly,with 19 percent carrying weapons in 2005." These are tabulated poll results from last year.
"Jerry the Geek"
Cogito Ergo Geek
June 28, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/3dh3br
This particular shooter-blogger has a great deal laudatory to say about Kopel's book Supreme Court Gun Cases, from an increasingly informed perspective.
"rightwingprof"
Right Wing Nation
September 10, 2005
The Title translates to "Concealed Handgun License Percentages." This academic blogger compiled a list of all current shall-issue states, and the percentages of the populations that then had carry licenses.
This newsletter is compiled with help from Dr. Rob S. Rice. For more on this creative, yet pragmatic individual, see here. Dr. Rice is proud and exhausted to announce the first publication of one his novels, to be found here. Your prayers and purchases are most appreciated.
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