The Hidden Historical past of Weapons and the Second Modification (The Thom Hartmann Hidden Historical past Collection)

“On this exact primer on firearms practices and insurance policies, progressive talk-show host Hartmann examines the historical past of routine gun utilization and excessive gun violence and assesses the affect of gun possession on modern political, financial, and social norms…A quick however highly effective evaluation of a searing nationwide disaster.” –Booklist

Thom Hartmann, the most well-liked progressive radio host in America and a New York Instances bestselling creator, seems to be at the actual historical past of weapons in America and what we will do to restrict each their deadly influence and the ability of the gun foyer.

Taking his usually in-depth, traditionally knowledgeable view, Hartmann examines the brutal function weapons have performed in American historical past, from the genocide of the Native People to the enforcement of slavery (Slave Patrols are in reality the Second Modification’s “well-regulated militias”) and the racist post-Civil Struggle social order. He exhibits how the NRA and conservative Supreme Court docket justices used specious logic to invent a just about limitless particular person proper to personal weapons, which has enabled the ever-growing variety of mass shootings in the US. However Hartmann additionally identifies a handful of highly effective, commonsense options that might break the ability of the gun foyer and restore the understanding of the Second Modification that the Framers of the Structure supposed. That is the type of transient, sensible evaluation for which Hartmann is justly famend.

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The Thom Hartmann Hidden Historical past Collection

The Hidden Historical past Collection
Thom Hartmann, the most well-liked progressive radio host in America and a New York Instances bestselling creator, seems to be at the actual historical past of weapons in America and what we will do to restrict each their deadly influence and the ability of the gun foyer.
“Hartmann delivers a full-throated indictment of the U.S. Supreme Court docket on this punchy polemic.”—Publishers Weekly
“Hartmann’s historical past of voter suppression in America is important info given present information about voter registration purges and redistricting…a very well timed subject for an election 12 months…”—Booklist
“That is an important, dynamic guide on the cancers of monopoly by big firms written in our era.”—from the foreword by Ralph Nader
This guide seems to be at the actual historical past of the corrupting affect of oligarchy in America—and the way we will struggle again.

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