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- Title
GUNS AND MEMBERSHIP IN THE AMERICAN POLITY.
- Authors
Gulasekaram, Pratheepan
- Abstract
The article offers information regarding the issue of political, legal, and historical consciousness for guns in the U.S. It mentions that firearms have helped defining ideas of membership in the U.S. It presents a symbolic importance of citizenship distinctions in gun rights. It also discusses the paradox related to firearms and American identity for categorizing access to and use of guns as both a liberating and democratizing force.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FIREARMS &; crime; LAW &; politics; CITIZENSHIP; CIVIL rights; PARADOX; GUN laws; UNITED States politics &; government, 2009-2017; STATE regulation; FEDERAL regulation; U.S. states
- Publication
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 2012, Vol 21, Issue 2, p619
- ISSN
1065-8254
- Publication type
Article