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oapen-20.500.12657-302352021-11-09T09:03:43Z Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea Horowitz, Joshua Anderson, Casey Political Science Democracy Gun politics in the United States Insurrectionary anarchism National Rifle Association Second Amendment to the United States Constitution 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. 2018-03-01 23:55:55 2020-03-12 03:00:31 2020-04-01T12:49:11Z 2020-04-01T12:49:11Z 2009-04-29 book 648343 OCN: 646812281 9780472900886 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30235 eng application/pdf n/a 648343.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.180934 100893 10.3998/mpub.180934 e07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780472900886 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Ann Arbor 100893 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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