Links

Editorials and other writings on 2A repeal

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/repeal-second-amendment-gun-control/

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/why-its-time-to-repeal-the-second-amendment-95622/`

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opinion/john-paul-stevens-repeal-second-amendment.html

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-06-27-0806260750-story.html

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Repeal_the_Second_Amendment/hSGaDwAAQBAJ

https://newrepublic.com/article/166628/democrats-repeal-second-amendment-guns

Books

Allan Lichtman: Repeal the Second Amendment

David Hemenway: Private Guns, Public Health

Dennis A. Henigan: Lethal Logic

Dennis A. Henigan: “Guns Don’t Kill People”

Erik Larson: Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun

Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz: Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment

How many people support 2A repeal?

According to this poll, it’s 24 percent. Note the framing here: this is a pro-gun site taking great pains to let you know that a minority of people answered their question affirmatively. But keep in mind: only 10–20 percent of voters are single-issue gun rights voters, i.e., the type to whom “defending” the Second Amendment is more important than anything else. So, while people who want repeal may be a minority fringe group on one side of the question, it’s possible that they already outnumber the minority fringe group on the other side.

Here’s another poll putting the number at 21 percent.

How’d the NRA get that way?

https://medium.com/epic-magazine/sons-of-guns-a250e6637593

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/how-nra-rewrote-second-amendment

Guns and self-defense/crime

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/more-guns-do-not-stop-more-crimes-evidence-shows/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9715182/

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-threats-and-self-defense-gun-use-2/

John Lott

Sooner or later you’ll run into a gun fetishist citing Lott’s “research.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-shoddy-conclusions-of-the-man-shaping-the-gun-rights-debate

The Second Amendment: The Forgotten Clause

By an actual history professorator!
https://spu.edu/about-spu/events/constitution-day/archive/constitution-day-2019

Other websites

https://repeal-2a.com/
Not much to it yet.

https://www.thetrace.org/
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