Not be infringed the new assaults on the Second Amendment. They constantly try to abridge it. Thinking of Something Else. Shall not be infringed the new assaults on the Second Amendment. Obviously Second Amendment shaded contentious political policy debates. I would like to keep this on constitutional grounds. Lets just start with the text of the amendment itself. Taking out my National Constitution center pocket constitution the Second Amendment reads a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. You borrow part of the text of the amendment in the title of your book. Talk a little bit about that. The wording of the amendment is important. Shall not be infringed the new assaults on the Second Amendment is important because the Second Amendment does not grant the people of the United States the right to keep and bear arms. It says that right shall not be infringed which is a recognition of
David is the opinion editor of the Washington Times and the former president of the National Rifle association. He also served as a chairman of the American Conservative Union and his new book which he coauthored with thomas mason is called shall not be abridged shall not be infringed. The new assaults on your Second Amendment. Obviously Second Amendment can easily shaded to policy debate. I would like to keep this conversation on constitutional grounds to do that lets you start with a test of the amendment itself. Taking out my trusty pocket constitution. It reads a well regulated militia being necessary for the free state. It shall not be infringed. As we already said you borrow part of the text from the title of your book can you talk a little bit about that choice. The wording is important and shall not be infringed is important because the Second Amendment does not grant the people of the United States the right to keep and bear arms. It is a recognition of the fact that the right
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Pretom in a minute narrative of nonviolence. The other intervention, i think, is cultural in terms of who we see or think of when we think of gun owners, and also how we think about black resistance. And then finally, there is a Public Policy implication for your presentation of the black tradition of arms. So i look forward to really getting into those three areas with you. But before, i was interested in hearing from you a little bit about your background and how you got into this topic. How did you arrive at topic . Guest sure. Well, happy to be here, and i think your sense about the way the book encounters the current conversation is accurate. My background in this is, there are two influences, i suppose. So i grew up in rural gun culture which was black gun culture. So everyone that i knew, all of the, you know, the good people of the community, my grandfather and father who were both ministers both owned guns and so did everybody else in the community. Really unapologetically. An
Conversation is accurate. My background in this is, there are two influences, i suppose. So i grew up in rural gun culture which was black gun culture. So everyone that i knew, all of the, you know, the good people of the community, my grandfather and father were both ministers, both owned guns and so did everybody else in the community really unapologetically. And when i got to law school, i found that there was a quite different impression about something that i took as being sort of one of the clear, fundamental rights and importance of practical resources even before i could articulate something about fundamental rights. So there was this tension that operated in the way that i was sort of dealing with what i knew in my bones versus what i heard in law school and then the kind of cultural response to firearms issues that i got in lots of the venues that i was operating in after law school. So certainly at harvard the sense in the early 80s when i was there was, oh, well, that Secon