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About once a month, Dave Kopel produces a free e-mail Newsletter containing short summaries and links to important new research and writing involving the Second Amendment and firearms policy. The newsletter also reports on Kopel's latest writing. The content of this newsletter is produced by the Second Amendment Project at the Independence Institute, a think tank in Golden, Colorado. The newsletter is electronically distributed by the Second Amendment Foundation in Bellevue, Washington. Thus, the Second Amendment Foundation will be given your e-mail address.
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of past issues. Dave Kopel’s Second Amendment Newsletter. Feb. 28, 2002. Dave Kopel’s Second Amendment Project is based at the Independence Institute, a free-market think tank in Golden, Colorado. http://www.independenceinstitute.org ============================= Delivery of this newsletter comes courtesy of the Second Amendment Foundation, in Bellevue, Washington ============================= Please visit Dave Kopel’s website, containing articles on the Second Amendment and other freedom topics. ============================= Table of Contents for this issue:
1. New Kopel articles: Major new Issue Paper on gun shows. Plus gun prohibition in the Pacific, media bias, national ID card, Eleanor Roosevelt. 2. England 3. Terrorism 4. Bellesiles scandal 5. International news and research 6. Miscellaneous 7. Legal news
============================== 1. New Kopel material
a. Should Gun Shows Be Outlawed? McCain Bill Does Much More than Impose Background Checks. Independence Institute, Issue Paper no. 1-2002. http://www.davekopel.com/2A/IP/gunshows2.htm
b. Little Island that Roared. The story of Bougainville, and gun prohibition. National Review Online. Feb. 6, 2002. With Paul Gallant & Joanne Eisen. http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel020602.shtml
c. You’ve Got Identity. Why a national ID is a bad idea. National Review Online. Feb. 6, 2002. With Linda Gorman. http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel020502.shtml
d. Dailies shoot from hip, miss. Mischaracterizations of D.C. gun-control group bespeak sloppy reporting, editing at newspapers. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post, Jan. 27, 2002. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists /article/0,1299,DRMN_86_952474,00.html
e. Her Own Bodyguard. Gun-packing First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. National Review Online. Jan. 24, 2002. With Paul Gallant & Joanne Eisen. http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel012402.shtml
f. Coming soon on National Review Online: SHOT Show report; review of “Death by Gun Control: The Human Cost of Victim Disarmament” ============================== 2. Making England safe for Violent Criminals
By Simon Heffer http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml; $sessionid$JXECJWYAAHR4PQFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml =/opinion/2002/02/24/do2401.xml
b. NEWS RELEASE FROM THE LIBERTARIAN ALLIANCE London, Monday, 19th February 2002 For Immediate Use Contact Details: Dr Chris R. Tame, 07957 644519, chris@libertarian.co.uk "DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST HOUSEHOLDER WHO KILLED BURGLAR. THIS MAN IS A HERO", SAYS FREE MARKET AND CIVIL LIBERTIES THINK TANK
58 year old John Lambert, of Spalding, Lancashire, has been released on bail following two days of arrest after the death of one of two burglars who had broken into his home and put a knife to the throat of his wife, according to press reports.
During a struggle to defend himself and his wife Mr. Lambert killed the burglar with his own knife. Rather than suffering the indignity of arrest and police inquiries Mr Lambert should be hailed as a hero and public benefactor. So claims the Libertarian Alliance, Britain's most radical free market and civil liberties think tank.
Libertarian Alliance spokesman and Director, Dr Chris R. Tame, says:
"It is a sign of a morally corrupt society that Mr Lambert should have been held by the police for two days and is even now facing the insult of further police inquiries. In a free and moral society the individual has the complete right to self defense, including the use of deadly force, against those who attack and rob them. Any one who invades the home of another constitutes a deadly threat to its inhabitants, and should be dealt with accordingly. Mr Lambert has behaved both honourably and morally in defending himself, his wife and his property - and is a public benefactor by ridding society of one more predatory looter who threatened the safety of us all.
Yet again it is quite clear that the police, like all nationalised industries, have no real interest in their "customers", but would rather persecute both those who defend themselves and other easy targets. Whilst the restoration of law and order in this country depends upon many things - including the removal of legal impunity from children and adolescents, the restoration of strict sentences and real punishment for real crimes, the return of capital punishment, full restitution by criminals to their victims, the abolition of victimless "crimes" and pointless persecution of politically incorrect lifestyles, and the overthrow of the culture of socialist excuses and social determinism - a great step forward would be the full legal recognition of the right of individuals to defend themselves and others - and indeed, the restoration of their right to do so with firearms and other weapons.
A message must be sent to the criminal vermin that the workers of this country are not prey, that people will fight back, and that the police and the judicial system will no longer side with the predator rather than the victim."
ENDS
Note to Editors (1) Dr Chris R. Tame is the founder and Director of the Libertarian Alliance. A prolific writer and lecturer on many topics in sociology, economics, philosophy and the history of ideas. He is also the author of "Freedom, Responsibility and Justice: The Criminology of the New Right" in the book "The Politics of Crime Control" (Kevin Stenson & David Cowell, eds., Sage Publications, London, 1991), which can also be found reprinted at (2) Dr Tame can be contacted for further comment at 07957 644519 or by email at chris@libertarian.co.uk -- This news release comes from The Libertarian Alliance 25 Chapter Chambers, Esterbrooke Street, London SW1P 4NN Director: Dr Chris R. Tame 020 7821 5502, http://www.libertarian.co.uk Released by Sean Gabb <sean@libertarian.co.uk
======================== 3. Terrorism
a. Alert customer shoots terrorist in Efrat supermarket By The Jerusalem Post Internet Staff February 22, 2002 http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/02/22/News/News.43961.html
b. Save Lives — Arm Pilots FrontPageMagazine.com February 5, 2002 By: Tanya Metaksa http://frontpagemag.com/columnists/metaksa/2002/metaksa02-05-02.htm
c. Assertive Disarmament FrontPageMagazine.com By: Lowell Ponte February 13, 2002 http://www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/ponte/2002/ponte02-13-02.htm Discusses people who want to disarm American citizens but not disarm international terrorists.
d. An old man with a curious little metal cross Las Vegas Review-Journal
Jan. 27, 2002 http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2002/Jan-27-Sun-2002/opinion/17951357.html Joe Foss and his Medal of Honor.
============================== 4. Bellesiles Hoax
a. The Historian Who Couldn't Shoot Straight
The Weekly
Standard
by David Skinner
b. The Triumph of Ideological History FrontPageMagazine.com February 1, 2002 by Ronald Radosh http://www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/radosh/2002/rr02-01-02.htm
c. Guns and Poses
Wall Street
Journal, opinionjournal.com http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/kstrassel/?id=105001670
d. Historians criticize author's gun research Boston Globe David Mehegan Jan. 29, 2002 http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/029/living/ Historians_criticize_author_s_gun_research+.shtml Details from the forthcoming issue of William & Mary Quarterly
e. College Plans to Question Historian Historian Will Undergo Inquiry From Emory University for Book on Role of Guns in U.S. The Associated Press
Feb. 7, 2002
f. New paper by Clayton Cramer on Bellesiles. 30 pages long. http://www.claytoncramer.com/TheImportanceOfFootnotes.PDF
***g. Bellesiles gets a $30,000 grant from federal tax dollars to write another book on gun control! Arthur Kellermann comes to Bellesiles’s defense. Read installments 27 and 28 of Larry Pratt’s series on Michael Bellesiles. http://www.gunowners.org/optb.htm
============================== 5. International news and research
a. Canada Parliament Bill C-42. Proposed biological weapons law includes major new restrictions on gunpowder, ammunition, and reloading. Bill status: http://www.parl.gc.ca/37/1/parlbus/chambus/house/status/status1-e.html
Legislative Summary: http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/Bills_ls.asp?lang=E&Parl=37&Ses=1&ls=C42&source
b. Simon Fraser University Honours Professor Gary Mauser for his research on gun control
On February 15, 2002, Simon Fraser University honored Professor Gary Mauser during the Annual SFU Awards Ceremony. Professor Gary Mauser is the recipient of the 2001 Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy for his research on gun control, which was presented to him in October 2001. http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfnews/2001/Oct18/mauser.html http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/Releases/News/2001/October2001/Sterling.html
Summary of Mauser’s research: http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/sfnews/2001/Nov15/mauser.html
c. Registration: The Nazi Paradigm American Rifleman June 2001
By Stephen P.
Halbrook
d. Assault rifles for Annan guards investigated Washington Times Feb. 21, 2002 By Stewart Stogel http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020221-14729320.htm Prohibition advocate violates New York City gun laws.
============================== 6. Miscellaneous
a. "Gun Facts." version 3.1. Debunks various gun prohibition myths http://home.attbi.com/~guys/guns.html
b. PollingReport.com Collection of media polls on guns http://www.pollingreport.com/guns.htm
c. Creating
Criminals in Chicago
January 29, 2002 http://frontpagemag.com/columnists/metaksa/2002/metaksa01-29-02.htm Abusive enforcement of gun registration laws
d. Citizen of the year denied OK to carry gun Washington Times
Jan. 29, 2002
============================== 7. Law
a. Bean v. BATF. Supreme Court grants cert. on whether federal judges have the authority to restore Second Amendment rights of a felon. Case will be heard next fall. Fifth Circuit decision: http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/00/00-40304-cv0.htm
b. Second Amendment Foundation handgun carry suit in Ohio.
c. Trinen v. City and County of Denver (Colo. App. Feb. 14). Court of Appeals rules 2-1 that Denver restrictions on open and concealed carry are legitimate. Dissent argues that some of the restrictions are overbroad. http://www.courts.state.co.us/ctappeals/opinion/00CA2126.doc
d. Sturm, Ruger & Co v. City of Atlanta (Ga. App. Feb. 13). Atlanta’s abusive lawsuit against gun manufacturers is held to be preempted by state law. http://www.nssf.org/releases/021402.htm
e. House Speaker Presses Judge on Case Washington Post By R.H. Melton January 25, 2002 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35227-2002Jan24.html Judge who upheld local restriction on concealed carry draws ire of pro-rights legislator.
f. Harvard Law School Target Shooting club http://kuznets.fas.harvard.edu/~volokh/guns.html
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