Then were going to talk about how we work with with tv and and at the end we want to bring you into the conversation, of course, and so if youre looking at the program you can see that that frank isnt able to join us today, unfortunately, and then my lights and everything you can tell that this is being recorded for cspan. And with me today to to help moderate this sage goodwin of university of oxford. Yes. Hi everyone. So yeah, were getting pretty massive. Were gonna be filmed talking about tv, but first were gonna introduce some of the political historians we have here to talk about working on tv and were gonna you know, you can you can google them to find out itll be Amazing Things that theyve written but were gonna get to know them a little bit better by asking and their relationship with tv by asking them. What was the First Television event that they remember watching as a child and also who is there face of the Television News so well begin with David Greenberg who is a professo
Their views, but neither side fully understands the amendment. Is just 27 words long. Cannot she read that the amendment actually says . A well regulated militia for the free state, right of the people to bear arms shall not be in bridge. What do partisans say about how it supports their view of things . If youre a gun rights supporter you focus on the latter part, the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Or you look at the preamble, a well regulated militia. My backtrace to put pieces together and point out that others put those in the amendment and only together can we really understand it. If we were going to write this amendment today to reflect what the Founding Fathers wanted to say, what would it say . Id keep it. You have the assertion of a wellregulated militia and assertion that makes that possible. Its a right to keep and bear arms in a well regulated militia. Said these price, does that reflect an effort at the time the constitution and amendments were written to refl
i hope i didn t ruin surprises. your book talks about shattering myths when it comes to mass shootings and gun violence. is there a myth that frustrates you the most? you know, the very first myth we tackle in the book is who we are as a country. we as a country for our history, this isn t the way we have been. for the majority of our history, we have been a gun safety country. we have recognized the right to gun ownership, but also the need for laws to protect public safety. that changed in 77 when the nra was taken over by this harlan carter and really hit its peak in the late 90s and early 2 2000s. we have seen the consequences of it. we have respected the rights of firearms owners but acknowledge the need for safety. the first myth that really
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