James Jacobs (NYU) and Alex Haberman (Fordham): 3D Printed Firearms, Do‐It‐Yourself Guns and the Second Amendment. From The Critique, Lester Hunt on gun control: A conceptual analysis — what the gun debate is really about; Robert J. Spitzer on gun rights, tyranny and rebellion: John Locke, the American Constitution and the right to bear arms; Daniel Demetriou on our dignity-right to guns: Armed self-defense and gun control in the United States; Michael Huemer on gun rights and noncompliance: Two problems of prohibition; Lance Stell on gun violence in the U.S.: Does the trigger pull the finger or does the finger pull the trigger?; and Thomas R. Wells on the political philosophy of guns: Would America really be a better society without them? A week of gun violence does nothing to change the N.R.A.’s message. This is the beginning of the end of the NRA. New evidence confirms what gun rights advocates have said for a long time about crime.
Gun control is having a moment in Philadelphia: “Gun control” was a dirty word at the DNC just four years ago. Democrats are finally playing offense on gun control.
