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Guns and the American

Fredrick E. Vars and Amanda E. Adcock (Alabama): Do the Mentally Ill Have a Right to Bear Arms? From City Limits, a special investigative look at the effect of gun politics on the gun industry and policing in New York City. Jarrett Murphy on how the gun industry got rich stoking fear about Obama. Guns 'R Us: Jeanne Marie Laskas on buying guns in America. We are two countries now, and it's the space between that's scary — there are guns there, and no laws. Is Chicago’s new gun law legal? Geoffrey Johnson wonders. Taking aim: Dave Kopel on how politicians could learn a lot about responsibility from gun owners. A look at why black women want handguns. Our romance with guns: David Cole reviews Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America by Adam Winkler, The City That Became Safe: New York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control by Franklin E. Zimring, and Don’t Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America by David M. Kennedy. From The Rumpus, Patrick Walsh on guns and the American. Andrew Chow on 5 common myths about concealed carry laws. Garden & Gun claws its way back from the brink.