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Authors:Caroline Light
Published on: 2017
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pages: 225
ISBN:0807064661
ISBN13: 9780807064665
Category:History
Books Rating: 4.07
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Despite inevitable questions about gun control, there is a sharp increase in firearm sales in the wake of every mass shooting. Yet, this kind of DIY-security activism predates the contemporary gun rights movement -- and even the stand-your-ground self-defense laws adopted in thirty-three states, or the thirteen million civilians currently licensed to carry concealed firearms. As scholar Caroline Light proves, support for |good guys with guns| relies on the entrenched belief that certain |bad guys with guns| threaten us all. This book explores the development of the American right to self-defense and reveals how the original |duty to retreat| from threat was transformed into a selective right to kill. Light traces white America's attachment to racialized, lethal self-defense by unearthing its complex legal and social histories -- from the original |castle laws| of the 1600s, which gave white men the right to protect their homes, to the brutal lynching of |criminal| Black bodies during the Jim Crow era and the radicalization of the NRA as it transitioned from a sporting organization to one of our country's most powerful lobbying forces.Despite inevitable questions about gun control, there is a sharp increase in firearm sales in the wake of every mass shooting. Yet, this kind of DIY-security activism predates the contemporary gun rights movement -- and even the stand-your-ground self-defense laws adopted in thirty-three states, or the thirteen million civilians currently licensed to carry concealed firearms. As scholar Caroline Light proves, support for |good guys with guns| relies on the entrenched belief that certain |bad guys with guns| threaten us all. This book explores the development of the American right to self-defense and reveals how the original |duty to retreat| from threat was transformed into a selective right to kill. Light traces white America's attachment to racialized, lethal self-defense by unearthing its complex legal and social histories -- from the original |castle laws| of the 1600s, which gave white men the right to protect their homes, to the brutal lynching of |criminal| Black bodies during the Jim Crow era and the radicalization of the NRA as it transitioned from a sporting organization to one of our country's most powerful lobbying forces.
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