CONTENTS
INTRODUCNON: The Social Cost of Guns
1. The Unholy Alliance of Racism, Genocide, and Guns
2. The Sanitized History of America
3. The Roots of American Gun Culture in the “Discovery” of America
6. Early Hints toward the Second Amendment
8. How Slavery Laid the Foundation of the Second Amendment
9. Gun Culture Enshrined: The Second Amendment
10. A Constitutional Rorschach Ploy: Limits on Slavery?
11. How Europe’s History of Mercenaries and Military Coups Shaped the Second Amendment
12. How Fears of Abolition Shaped the Second Amendment
13. The Myth of the Well-Armed Cowboy
14. The Gunshot That Ended Reconstruction
15. The Failure of Reconstruction and the Rise of the Klan
16. Racists Turn Open Carry into the New White Hood
17. Copwatching and Its Connection to Gun Control
18. One Sunny August Day in Texas
19. 1966: A Turning Point in America’s Gun Culture
20. Guns, Militarism, and the War on Drugs
21. Heller: Reinterpreting the Second Amendment
22. Political Corruption Underwrites America’s Gun-Control Nightmare
23. Gun-Control Activists Are Confronting Only the Tip of the Iceberg
24. Neoliberalism Drives Inequality; Inequality Drives Mass Murder
25. Weapons of War on America’s Streets
27. What America Learned from Cars—and How to Apply It to Guns
28. Gun Manufacturing in the 21st Century: 3-D Printing
29. Well-Regulated Smart Guns Are Here
30. Addressing Racism to Reduce Gun Violence