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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
Tradition of warm us. So i look forward to really getting into those three areas with you, love for a was interested in hearing from you a little bit about your background and how you have gotten into this topic, how did you arrive at this topic. Happy to be here. I think your sense about the way the book encounters occurred conversation is accurate. My background and this is there are two influences. I grew up in rural gun culture, which was black and culture. So everyone that i knew, all of the, you know, good people of the community, my grandfather and father were both ministers, both those guns. So did everybody else in the community. Really unapologetically. When i got to law school ill bet that there was a quite different impression of about something that i took as being sort of one of the clear fundamental rights. Before i could articulate something about the fundamental rights. There was this tension in the way that i was dealing with what i knew verses what i heard in law sch
Was a very unique approach to a very desperate situation and he was left hanging out to dry. And he was able to hold off an army that outnumbered his probably 100 to one if not 100,000 to one. For more information on both tvs visit from china to tennessee and the many other cities visited by her content vehicles, go to cspan. Org local content. Up next on booktv, after words with the former Senior Researcher of columbia university. Nicholas johnson in his book negroes and the gun the black tradition of arms. In it, the Law School Professor discusses the tradition of African Americans using firearms to defend their families and communities. A tradition that dates back to reconstruction. He argues that the nonviolence of the civil rights help to bury this fact of black history. This program is about one hour. So this strikes me as an important intervention in three ways. One of the black Freedom Movement and over the years has been increasingly revising the way that we understand the rol
Have, we have traced the tradition of black arms and how its been challenged in the mid20th century and now the corrected scores over gun rights and the protection of black rights, many who bought the hands of our gun violence. How do you see the long rich tradition, black tradition of arms being revived in the short time we have . Ultimately what i have is that people have to make up their own mind. I try and give lots of data. This is something they teach. Its got another textbook that deals with lots of details on questions of risks and benefits. Weve got all kinds of data about the benefit of firearms, defensive and uses ranging into the millions per year. You dont hear about them because they are branching out this when no shots are fired. Deterrent value of firearms chronicled by the center for Disease Control of the National Crime at the survey. Read all of that detail in the book. My assessment of this coming away is that on balance, we are better off if members, the sober, mat