The Gun Dilemma: How History Is Against Expanded Gun Rights

ISBN-13: 9780197643747 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 192 str.

Robert J. (Distinguished Service Professor of Political Scie

Recenzje

According to Spitzer (Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science Emeritus at SUNY-Cortland), the United States is at a gun policy fork in the road (ch. 1)...One path leads to violence-reducing gun laws that Spitzer argues American public opinion supports and asserts the country needs; the other path leads to regressive legal decisions expanding gun rights by Federalist Society-backed Originalist judges, especially on the Supreme Court (p. 22)...The Gun Dilemma was clearly finished right as the Supreme Courtâs Bruen decision was released in June 2022. In what reads as an afterthought, Spitzer notes that the decision is in line with the story he tells.

O autorze

Robert J. Spitzer is Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the State University of New York, College at Cortland. He is the author of sixteen books, including four on the presidency and six on gun policy. He is also Series Editor for the book series "American Constitutionalism" for SUNY Press, and the "Presidential Briefing Book" series for Routledge. In 2003, he received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship. Spitzer is the author of over 700 articles, papers, and op-eds appearing in many books, journals, newspapers, and web sites on a variety of American politics subjects. He served as President of the Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association and as a member of the New York State Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. He has testified before Congress on several occasions. Spitzer is often quoted and interviewed by American and international news outlets, including The Today Show, Good Morning America, ABC Nightly News, PBS's News Hour, MSNBC's All In With Chris Hayes, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, CNN, NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, The Diane Rehm Show, 1A, documentary films "Guns and Mothers" (PBS, 2003), "Under the Gun" (Katie Couric Film Company, Epix, 2016), "The Price of Freedom" (Flatbush Pictures/Tribeca Films, 2021) and media outlets in over twenty countries. His articles have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN.com, the New York Daily News, Time Magazine, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, and Salon, among others. He was also a visiting professor at Cornell University for thirty years.