RWU - Texas Profs Debate Gun Control
Two of the top experts on gun control, RWU Professor Carl Bogus and Professor Sanford Levinson from the University of Texas, debated last week on “Justice Talks,” a nationally-syndicated production of National Public Radio.
The Right to Bear Arms
A Surprising Split Among Liberals
Release Date: 6/18/2007
Overview
A recent federal appeals court ruling that invalidated a Washington, D.C. ban on gun ownership raises important issues over the meaning of the Second Amendment. Throughout history, legal theorists have split on whether the Second Amendment protects the rights of individuals to own guns or only the right to establish armed militias. But now some liberals are unexpectedly supporting the view that individuals have a constitutional right to own and use guns, and that gun control laws may be unconstitutional. This week on Justice Talking: Is the left giving new ammunition to the NRA?
Debate: The Second Amendment
The Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms, but is it an individual right or a collective one? Texas Law School’s Sanford Levinson and Carl Bogus of Roger Williams University debate the meaning of the Second Amendment.
Sanford Levinson teaches at the University of Texas Law School and is a member of the Government Department at the University of Texas. His most recent book is Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (and How We the People Can Correct It).
Carl Bogus is a law professor at Roger Williams University.
He has written several articles on the Second Amendment, including “What Does the Second Amendment Restrict? A Collective Rights Analysis and The Hidden History of the Second Amendment.”
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(Reprinted with permission of NPR’s Justice Talking)
