INDEX
3-D printed gun blueprints, 137–39
abortion, legalization of, xiii, 121–22
affirmative action programs, 145–46
African Americans
black communities, disruption of, 96–97
black middle class, 145–46
dangers to from police, 73–74
disarming of, present day, 73–74
medical mistreatment of, 57
police shootings of unarmed, 73–75
Amaral, Luis, 123–24
Amendments to the Constitution, 10, 62, 63, 66, 100, 101, 116
See also Second Amendment
American Academy of Pediatrics, 7
American Holocaust (Stannard), 22
American Revolution, 30, 37, 52
American Slavery, American Freedom (Morgan), 29
American Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Bullock, 112–13
amnesty programs, 149
Anslinger, Harry J., 97–98
“antifascist protesters,” 73
anti-Federalist faction, 99–100
antiwar left, 96
Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (US Army), 141, 142
armed rebellion, Second Amendment “right” to, 106–7
Aronsen, Gavin, 120–21
Articles of Confederation, 37
Atahuallpa, 28
Atwater, Lee, 97
automatic weapons, 126, 127–32, 149
process to obtain, 128–30. See also semiautomatic weapons
baby boomer generation, xiii, 123
Badger, Bill, 130
Bartolomé de Las Casas, 21
Baum, Dan, 96–97
BB guns, as police plants, 73–74
Beierle, Scott, 93
Bellesiles, Michael, 13
Berger, Warren, 103
Birth of a Nation (film), 59, 63
“Black Awareness” class, 144
Black Cavalry, 68
black communities, disruption of, 96–97
Black Panther Party, 76, 77–78, 118–19
Bogotá, Colombia, 126
Bogus, Carl T., 32
bomb mailings, 92
Boone, Daniel, 57
Boston Tea Party, 52–53
Bowers, Robert, 92–93
plantation owners protected by, 31
British East India Company, 52–53
Brown, John, 62
Brown, Michael, 72
Buchwald, Art, 121–22
Buckley v. Valeo, 112
Buffalo Bill, 59
“Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World,” 59
Bush, Jeb, 115
Bush, George W., 115
bushwhackers, 56–57
bushwhackers (Missouri Confederates), 55
busing, 1960s, 145
Carlin, George, 133
Carter, Harlon, 80
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), 93–94
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 3–4
Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, 119
Chapman, Simon, 148
Charlottesville, Virginia, 70, 72–73
Christianity, 12
Citizens United, 109, 112–13, 114, 116
“civil asset forfeiture,” 68
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 90
civil rights movement, 121
secession, 70–71
Clark, Stephon, 74
Clark, William, 110–12
Clinton, Henry, 48
Clinton, Hillary, 92
Columbus, Bartholomew, 20
Columbus, Cristopher, 8, 16–21
Confederate soldiers, former, 54–55
Congressional Research Service, 123
Constitution, 8
Article 1, Section 2, 39
Article 1, Section 8, militia powers, 40, 41–42, 44, 46, 47–48, 100
Article 1, Section 9, 39–40
Article 3, Section 2, 116
funding provision for standing armies, 44, 46
Madison’s first draft, 37, 44–45
Virginia ratifying convention, 35, 44
Constitutional Convention, 1787, 37, 38, 103–4
Cooper, Thomas, 42–43
copwatching, 76–79
Copwatch Patrols, 78
Citizens United decision, 109, 112–13, 114, 116–17
corruption, 109–13
cowboys, 52–59
death threats, 142
Declaration of Independence, 53, 55, 106
de Landa, Diego, 23–25
DeLay, Tom, 112
Democracy in America (de Tocqueville), 118
De Niro, Robert, 92
Diamond, Jared, 27
DiCaprio, Leonardo, 32
Dickey Amendment, 3–4
Dillinger, John, 127
disintegration, 119–20
District of Columbia v. Heller, 99–108, 115
Dolly (slave), 64
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 69
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 116
Drew, Benjamin, 31
drug enforcement, 95–98
Drug Enforcement Agency, 97
Duwe, Grant, 89
Ehrlichman, John, 96–97
Eisenhower, Dwight, 45
Elizabeth I, 52
eugenics, 59–60
Falls, Robert, 6
Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 97
Federalist Papers, 41
federal militia, 47–48
“FEMA camps,” 8
feminism, 121–22
Ferguson, Missouri, 72
Fields, James, Jr., 73
Fifteenth Amendment, 62
fingerprint reader, 140–41
“The First Gun in America” (NPR), 16–17
First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 127
Follman, Mark, 120–21
Ford, Henry, 133
Founders/Framers, 99, 105, 107
Fourth Amendment, 66, 100, 101
Frederick, Karl, 130
Galton, Francis, 60
Gardner, Cory, 113
Garland, Merrick, 116
genocide, 5, 6–9, 12–13, 20–22, 53–55, 57
Giffords, Gabrielle, 130
Gilded Age, 110
Gore, Al, 115
Gorsuch, Neil, 116
Gottfried, Mara H., 80–81
Gray, Freddie, 72
Grenier, John, 27
gun-buyback program, Australia, 2–3, 149
gun-control measures, 79–80, 125–26
gun culture, 5, 13, 15, 22, 25, 27–30, 70, 90, 114
gun death statistics, xiii-xiv, 148
gun ownership, regulated like car ownership, 126
Hagan, John, 123–24
Haiti/Hispaniola, 16–21
Hamilton, Alexander, 41–42
Hampton, Fred, 76
Harris, Katherine, 115
Hartmann, Louise, 144
Harvard Injury Control Center, 125
Hawkins, Gordon, 8–9
Heller (District of Columbia v. Heller), 99–108, 115
Helmer, William, 83–86
Hemenway, David, 125
Hemings, James, 36
Hemings, Sally, 36
heroes, 56–57
Heyer, Heather, 73
Hitler, Adolf, 15, 24, 34, 59–60
Hogg, David, 109
Holder, Eric, 92
Holliday, Doc, 105
Holocaust, 92
homemade products, 137–38
house raids by police, 95–96
House/Senate compromise, 38
Hughes, Mark, 74–75
Hutton, Bobby, 77
incendiary devices, 94
indentured servants, 38–39
“individual right” to gun ownership, 99–108
inequality, 118–24
James, Claire, 82–83
James, King, 52
Jamestown, Virginia, 26
Japan, xiii
Jefferson, Thomas, 29–30, 34–38, 40–41, 99–100
on Madison’s first draft of Constitution, 37, 44–45
Johnson, Andrew, 64
Johnson County Sheriff’s Department, Kansas, 95–96
Justice Policy Institute, 98
Kalispell Bee, 111
Kaplan, Mark, 120
Keith, Donald, 17
Kennedy, Anthony, 112
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 121
Kopel, David, 28
Ku Klux Klan, 13, 59, 63–68, 69
Lanza, Adam, xii-xiii
Lanza, Nancy, xii-xiii
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight (Hartmann), 16
Las Vegas shooting, 2017, 89
Lawrence, Kansas, 55
Lee, Henry, 107
Levitz, Eric, 123
liability insurance, 135, 136, 139
“Liberty to Slaves” slogan, 48
limited-liability corporations, 52
Loaded (Dunbar-Ortiz), 11
“lone wolves,” young white men as, 87, 88
lynch mobs, 67
Madison, James, 29–30, 35, 37, 40, 43–45, 50–51, 103–4
magazines, semiautomatic, 131–32
Magee, Steven, 140
manifest destiny, 12–13
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, 89
“masculinity,” 93
Massachusetts, Shays’ Rebellion, 106–7
Massachusetts Constitution, 46
Mass Murderers (Time-Life Books), 86
mass shootings
1930s, 132
school shootings, xiii, 24, 60, 123–24
University of Texas, 82–86
young white men most likely, 86–88, 120
Mayans, 24–25
McConnell, Mitch, 116
Memory as a Remedy for Evil (Todorov), 23
mental health issues, 119, 120–21
Meredith, James, 90
Mexican-American War, 56
microstamping, 141
middle class
black, 145–46
disintegration of, 119, 123–24
midterm elections, 2018, 94
military-industrial complex, 45
Article 1, Section 8 powers, 40, 41–42, 44, 46, 47–48, 100. See also slave patrols Minnesota permit-to-carry holders, 80–81
money equals free speech, 112–13, 116–17
money in politics, 109–14
Moore, Roy, 12
Morgan, Edmund S., 29
Mother Jones, 120–21
Move to Amend, 116
Mulford Act (AB-1591), 79, 118–19
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 98
National Firearms Act of 1934, 127–30, 132
National Firearms Museum, 16
National Museum of African
American History and Culture, 147
National Rifle Association (NRA), 3–4, 8, 74–75, 80, 81, 105–6, 109, 127–30, 150
Native Americans, 11–12, 15, 21–22, 26, 31, 53–55
treaties with, 31
as woodsmen, 29
“Negro risings,” fear of, 65
neoliberalism, 118–24
New Hampshire Constitution, 46
Newton, Huey, 77–79
Newtown, Connecticut, shooter, xiii
New York Post, 122–23
Nixon, Richard, 24, 94, 96–97, 103, 111
reelection campaign, 105
Northwestern University study, 123–24
number of guns correlated to gun violence, 6–7
Oakland, California, 77–78
Obama, Barack, xi-xii, 6, 8, 92, 116
OK Corral, shootout at, 56–57 Olds, R. E., 133
“Old West outlaws,” 55
OMB No. 1140–0014 Application for Tax Paid Transfer & Registration of Firearm form, 128–30
Oregon, homemade car legislation, 137
Orwell, George, 10
Paddock, Stephen, 89
Old West outlaws Pah, Adam R., 123–24
Palast, Greg, 115
Pan, Deanna, 120–21
Parkland, Florida, shooting, 89, 114, 136, 150
Paton, Alan, 144
Patriot Prayer, 91
“pauper class,” 42–43
Pedro de Cordoba, 20
A People’s History of the United States (Zinn), 25, 26–27
Perry, Governor, 66
personhood, corporate, 51
“person,” legal definition, 10
Philippines, 58
pipe bombs, 94
plantation owners, 19, 31–32, 35, 37, 48, 104
expansion of operations, 53–54. See also slavery
police forces, 63–64
African Americans on, 65
Charlottesville response, 72–73
“civil asset forfeiture,” 68
house raids by, 95–96
local taxes pay for, 146–47
shootings of unarmed African Americans, 73–75
political violence, 91
Port Arthur Massacre, Australia, 148
Portland Police Bureau, 91–92
Portman, Rob, 113
Portsmouth, Virginia, 64–65, 66
Powell Memo, 112
private prison industry, 147
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123
Prohibition era, 127
property rights, 71
property taxes, to pay for public schools, 146
Public Citizen, 116
public health and safety, 140, 148
Pyatt, Jan (former slave), 65
racism, 14, 23–24, 90, 121, 144–46
“scientific theories” to justify, 57–60
radio frequency identification (RFID), 141–42
Reagan, Ronald, 54, 76, 79, 90, 94, 105, 116, 118, 122–23
Reaganomics, 122–24
Reconstruction, 63–64
Regas, George, vii
registration and title, 134–35
regulation, 140–43
Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán (de Landa), 23–24
reparations, 145–46
research prevented, 3–4
revolvers, 131
Rice, Tamir, 73–74
Richmond militia, 62
rifles, 131–32
right-wing extremists, 92–94
Rockefeller, John D., 110
Rodger, Elliot, 122
Roosevelt, Theodore, 22, 58–59, 110, 111
Rosenthal, Elisabeth, 125
Rough Riders, 59
Safe Gun Technology, Inc., 140–41
Scalia, Antonin, 100–102, 104, 113
school shootings, xiii, 24, 60, 123–24
school system, public, 144, 146
Science magazine, 7
Seale, Bobby, 77–79
secession documents, 70–72
Second Amendment, 5, 10, 27, 34, 65, 74, 100
“bear arms” phrase, 102–3
country changed to State, 51
Seize the Time (Seale), 77
semiautomatic weapons, 126, 127–32, 149. See also automatic weapons
senators, direct election of, 110, 111–12
Seventeenth Amendment, 110, 111–12
sex-slave trade, 18–19
Shays, Daniel, 106–7
Shays’ Rebellion, 106–7
Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 111
shooting ranges, x-xi
shooting-range test, 135–36
Short, William, 36
slave patrols, 10, 11, 31, 35, 60, 73. See also militias
Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas (Hadden), 32
1808 compromise, 39–40
police state required, 25, 33, 47
religious justification for, 12–13. See also plantation owners
slave trade into America, 39
smart guns, 140–43
Smith, John, 21
Smith, L. Neil, 95
Smith, Timothy M., 3
snipers, 86
social Darwinism, 57
social safety net, 118–19, 123
Soros, George, 92
South, 31–32
post-Civil War, 61
Reconstruction, 63–64. See also slave patrols; slavery southern-strategy dog whistle, 91, 94, 119
Spanish-American War, 58
Spencer, Herbert, 57–58
Spitzer, Eliot, 125
Sporting Shooters’ Association of Australia, 120
“sportsmen” issue, 76
standing armies, 35, 40, 41–46, 99–100
Stevens, John Paul, 99–105, 109
Stinson, Clark, 1–2
Stinson, Colleen, 1
“stolen property,” 67–68
Supica, Jim, 16
Supreme Court, 51, 99, 112, 115–16
Buckley v. Valeo, 112
Citizens United, 109, 112–13, 114, 116
Florida recount, 2000, 115
Heller (District of Columbia v. Heller), 99–108, 115
Taft, William Howard, 110, 111–12, 114
taxes, 145–47
Tea Act of 1773, 52–53
Tenth Amendment, 101
Texas Rangers, 11
Tillis, Thom, 113
Tillman Act, 1907, 114
Todorov, Tzvetan, 23
Tree of Life synagogue shooting, 92–93
Trump, Donald, 70, 90–91, 92, 110, 116
Tubman, Harriet, 31
Tuchman, Barbara W., 34
Tucson, Arizona shooting, 130
Uniform Firearms Act of 1931, Pennsylvania, 127–28
United States history, sanitized, 10–14
University of Texas shooting, 1966, 82–86, 89 US Army, 42, 141
Virginia, 25
Jamestown, 26
militias, 32
open-carry state, 70
ratifying convention for Constitution, 35, 44, 48
Virginia Bill of Rights of 1776, 45
Virginia Company, 52
Virginia Declaration of Rights, 41
vote
2016 elections, 69–70
denied to slaves, 38–39
Klan intimidation, 69
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 90
War of 1812, 43
Warren, Elizabeth, 142–43
Washington, George, 15, 30, 107
weapons manufacturers, 2–5, 10, 13, 51, 80, 117, 127
Weeks, Linton, 16
Wheeler, Ted, 91
Whiskey Rebellion, 1794, 107
white men
as likely shooters, 86–88, 120
white supremacy, 8, 34, 62–66, 70, 72, 75
modern, 24
“scientific theories,” 57–60
as thought-virus, 19
Whitman, Charles, 82–83, 87, 89
Whitney, Eli, 56
Williamson, Marianne, 1
Wilson, Cody, 137
Winchester, Olivert, 13
Winchester Repeating Arms Company, 13
Yanez, Jeronimo, 81
Zimmerman, George, 145
Zimring, Franklin, 8–9