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The Gun Dilemma: How History Is Against Expanded Gun Rights de Robert J. Spitzer

The Gun Dilemma: How History Is Against Expanded Gun Rights

Autor Robert J. Spitzer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 mai 2025

Literatura academică dedicată politicilor publice din Statele Unite ale Americii a lăsat adesea neexplorată distorsionarea și ignorarea datelor istorice reale în dezbaterea modernă privind armele de foc. Volumul The Gun Dilemma, publicat de Oxford University Press, vine să acopere această lacună prin demontarea riguroasă a argumentelor folosite de mișcările contemporane de extindere a drepturilor de deținere a armelor.

Ne-a atras atenția analiza aplicată asupra mișcării denumite „gun rights 2.0”. Reținem că autorul utilizează surse de informații inedite pentru a contesta viziunea radical-libertariană a judecătorilor originaliști care s-au îndepărtat de reperele stabilite prin decizia istorică Heller din 2008. Structura cărții indică o progresie clară și o acoperire tematică deosebit de relevantă pentru curriculumul facultăților de științe politice și politici comparative. După definirea dilemei de politici în primul capitol, textul progresează spre aspecte tehnice și juridice specifice: armele de asalt și încărcătoarele în capitolul al doilea, problema silențiatoarelor în al treilea și afișarea publică a armelor în al patrulea. Capitolul al cincilea extinde analiza spre sanctuarele Amendamentului Doi și limitele federalismului, conducând spre concluzii esențiale pentru înțelegerea politicilor publice actuale.

Cititorii familiarizați cu Guns across America vor aprecia modul în care acest volum nou extinde cercetarea legilor timpurii către controversele emergente care riscă să ajungă în fața Curții Supreme. Spre deosebire de alte lucrări din opera autorului, cum este New Proofs for the Existence of God — unde Robert J. Spitzer a analizat argumentele teiste din fizică și filozofie —, volumul de față se concentrează strict pe intersecția dintre istoria juridică și dreptul constituțional american, oferind instrumente conceptuale precise pentru studenți și cercetători.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197809242
ISBN-10: 0197809243
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 159 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Lucrarea se adresează studenților la științe politice, juriștilor și celor interesați de politicile comparative din SUA. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă documentată istoric asupra modului în care s-au reglementat armele de foc, primind argumente clare bazate pe fapte, nu pe retorică politică. Este o resursă esențială pentru a înțelege cum deciziile juridice actuale sunt influențate de interpretarea trecutului.

Despre autor

Robert J. Spitzer este Distinguished Service Professor de științe politice la State University of New York la Cortland. Activitatea sa academică este recunoscută pentru rigurozitatea analizelor politice și constituționale. Deși aria sa de expertiză include lucrări de referință în domeniul controlului armelor de foc în Statele Unite, autorul a demonstrat o deschidere tematică vastă în cariera sa, abordând inclusiv subiecte complexe din zona filozofiei și a argumentației teiste în raport cu fizica modernă. În volumul de față, Spitzer își folosește vasta experiență universitară pentru a oferi o analiză critică clară, adaptată nevoilor academice actuale.

Descriere

An informed and sophisticated look at the current debate between gun laws and gun rights in America. Contemporary gun controversies are deeply rooted in our history, yet much of that history is unknown, ignored, or distorted. This is all the more important because a new gun rights movement is pressing to expand the definition of gun rights well beyond the standard set by the Supreme Court in its landmark, controversial Heller ruling from 2008. These activists' efforts have found a receptive audience among a new generation of very conservative federal judges cultivated in part for their professed adherence to the doctrine of constitutional Originalism and fealty to an expansive reading of gun rights. In The Gun Dilemma, Robert J. Spitzer examines this "gun rights 2.0" movement in the light of a host of gun controversies: assault weapons, ammunition magazines, silencers, public gun brandishing and display, and the emergent Second Amendment sanctuary movement. Given the importance of actual gun law history to this debate, Spitzer draws from the historical record to illuminate several contemporary and emergent gun controversies that may well make their way to the Supreme Court. Revealing and illuminating as that history is, he argues that we should not be straitjacketed by that history, but rather informed by it as the nation struggles with how to frame its gun policies. By utilizing novel information sources to explore both gun law history and current debates, The Gun Dilemma provides an informed and sophisticated challenge to the ascendant originalists who appear to be set on enshrining in law a radical libertarian vision of gun rights.

Recenzii

The conservatives' campaign to expand gun rights through the legislatures and courts often is cloaked in faulty claims about American history. In this book, Robert Spitzer sets the historical record straight when it comes to regulating large-capacity magazines, silencers, and carrying guns in public, as well as with the particularly scary 'sanctuary' movement. Common-sense gun regulation, it turns out, is as American as apple pie, and there remains broad public support for that approach. Spitzer's well-founded concern, amply illustrated in this book, is that that approach is being trumped by a pro-gun judicial ideology, putting public safety further at risk.
In an illuminating and wide-ranging analysis, Robert Spitzer demonstrates that many of the most pressing elements of the contemporary gun debate are, in fact, not all that new. Examining a number of different pressing areas of gun policy, this book makes clear that
In The Gun Dilemma, Robert Spitzer offers a master class in contemporary gun politics. Spitzer focuses on issues with major social implications: high-capacity magazines, silencers, and
According to Spitzer (Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science Emeritus at SUNY-Cortland), the United States is at a gun policy fork in the road (ch. 1)... One path leads to violence
Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals.
As in his other work on gun policy, Spitzer writes in a way that is engaging and accessible to academics and non-experts alike. This book will surely serve as an indispensable resource for scholars seeking to better understand gun policy history.
Robert Spitzer's meticulously researched and engaging new book argues that many of today's judges and Second Amendment activists have weaponized history. They deploy crabbed and incomplete accounts of our past to make the case that most gun laws depart from our civil liberties traditions, and are the innovative 'product of modern American society.' In six pithy chapters, Spitzer shows that the 'opposite is true.' From colonial times to the present, federal and state gun regulations emerged whenever new weapons or technology posed threats to public safety. Legislation restricting firearms is, therefore, popular, recurring, deeply rooted, and 'as old as the country.'

Notă biografică

Robert J. Spitzer is Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the State University of New York, College at Cortland, and adjunct professor at the College of William & Mary School of Law. He is the author of sixteen books, including four on the presidency and six on gun policy. He is also Series Editor for the book series "American Constitutionalism" for SUNY Press, and the "Presidential Briefing Book" series for Routledge. In 2003, he received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship. Spitzer is the author of over 700 articles, papers, and op-eds appearing in many books, journals, newspapers, and web sites on a variety of American politics subjects. He served as President of the Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association and as a member of the New York State Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. He has testified before Congress on several occasions.Spitzer is often quoted and interviewed by American and international news outlets, including The Today Show, Good Morning America, ABC Nightly News, PBS's News Hour, MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, CNN, NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, The Diane Rehm Show, 1A, documentary films "Guns and Mothers" (PBS, 2003), "Under the Gun" (Katie Couric Film Company, Epix,2016), "The Price of Freedom" (Flatbush Pictures/Tribeca Films, 2021) and media outlets in over twenty countries. His articles have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN.com, the New York Daily News, Time Magazine, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, and Salon, among others. He was also a visiting professor at Cornell University for thirty years.

Cuprins

  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter One: The Gun Policy Fork in the Road
  • Chapter Two: Assault Weapons and Ammunition Magazines
  • Chapter Three: The Sound of Silencers
  • Chapter Four: Weapons Brandishing and Display
  • Chapter Five: Second Amendment Sanctuaries: Coloring Outside the Lines of Federalism
  • Chapter Six: Conclusion: Navigating the Gun Fork in the Road
  • About the Author
  • Notes
  • Index