| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Ch. 1 | The Benefits of Gun Ownership | 1 |
| A | The Benefits of Guns for Personal Self-Defense | 3 |
| Basic Self-Defense Principles | 3 |
| The Effectiveness of Guns for Self-Defense | 6 |
| Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America | 6 |
| How Many Defensive Gun Uses (DGUs)? | 12 |
| Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun | 13 |
| The Gun Debate's New Mythical Number: How Many Defensive Uses Per Year? | 26 |
| B | Gun Ownership and Carrying as a Deterrent to Crime | 33 |
| Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms | 34 |
| Gun Carrying | 37 |
| More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws | 38 |
| "Lotts" More Guns and Other Fallacies Infecting the Gun Control Debate | 48 |
| C | Recreational Use | 53 |
| Ch. 2 | The Costs of Firearms | 60 |
| A | Homicides and Other Intentional Shootings | 61 |
| Firearms and Violence: Interpreting the Connection | 63 |
| B | Suicide | 78 |
| The Public Health Case for the Safe Storage of Firearms: Adolescent Suicides Add One More "Smoking Gun" | 82 |
| C | Accidental Shootings | 91 |
| Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control | 91 |
| D | The Financial Costs of Firearms Crime | 103 |
| E | Fear | 106 |
| Fear of Crime in the United States: Avenues for Research and Policy | 106 |
| Ch. 3 | Philosophical Roots of the Right to Arms and of Opposition to That Right | 113 |
| A | Self-Defense as a Natural Right | 113 |
| In Defence of Titus Annius Milo | 114 |
| The Rights of War and Peace | 115 |
| Leviathan | 116 |
| Second Treatise on Government | 116 |
| On Crime and Punishment | 119 |
| B | Arms Bearing as an Incident of Citizenship | 122 |
| The Politics | 122 |
| The Art of War | 123 |
| Letter to Samuel Kercheval (July 12, 1816) | 125 |
| Advice to the Privileged Orders | 126 |
| C | The Propensity of Absolute Rulers to Disarm Their Subjects | 130 |
| The Politics | 130 |
| The Republic | 131 |
| The Laws | 132 |
| The Art of War | 132 |
| The Six Bookes of a Commonweale | 133 |
| The American Crisis | 134 |
| D | The Citizen Militia as Dual Safeguard against Tyranny and Foreign Invasion | 137 |
| Discourses on Livy | 137 |
| A Discourse of Government with Relation to Militias | 139 |
| The Federalist No. 46 | 141 |
| E | Doubts about the Efficacy of Militias | 147 |
| An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | 147 |
| The Federalist No. 29 | 151 |
| Ch. 4 | The Right to Arms in the Second Amendment and State Constitutions: Cases and Commentary | 155 |
| A | The Second Amendment in the Supreme Court | 156 |
| Presser v. Illinois, 116 U.S. 252 (1886) | 158 |
| United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939) | 163 |
| B | The Second Amendment in Lower Federal Courts | 177 |
| Hickman v. Block, 81 F. 3d 98 (1996) | 177 |
| United States v. Emerson, 46 F. Supp. 2d 598 (N.D. Tex. 1999) | 181 |
| C | Scholarly Commentary on the Second Amendment | 189 |
| A Critical Guide to the Second Amendment | 190 |
| Commonplace or Anachronism: the Standard Model, the Second Amendment, and the Problem of History in Contemporary Constitutional Theory | 204 |
| D | The Right to Keep and Bear Arms under State Constitutions | 212 |
| Andrews v. State, 50 Tennessee (3 Heisk.) 165 (1871) | 213 |
| City of Salina v. Blaksley, 83 P. 619 (Kans. 1905) | 218 |
| State v. Kessler, 614 P. 2d 94 (Ore. 1980) | 222 |
| Arnold v. City of Cleveland, 616 N.E. 2d 163 (Ohio 1993) | 227 |
| Ch. 5 | Guns and Identity: Race, Gender, Class, and Culture | 234 |
| A | Race | 235 |
| The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration | 236 |
| Race, Riots, and Guns | 245 |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. A. A. Arms, Inc. et al | 253 |
| Guns Don't Kill Black People, Other Blacks Do | 255 |
| B | Gender | 258 |
| Why Annie Can't Get Her Gun: A Feminist Perspective on the Second Amendment | 258 |
| Why Packing a Pistol Perpetuates Patriarchy | 267 |
| C | Class and Culture | 276 |
| Submission Is Not the Answer: Lethal Violence, Microcultures of Criminal Violence and the Right to Self-Defense | 277 |
| Firearms Ownership by Class and Culture | 283 |
| Lethal Violence Victimization by Class and Culture | 283 |
| Ch. 6 | Guns and Civil Liability | 288 |
| A | Are Guns Defective Products on the Theory That Their Risk to Society Outweighs Their Usefulness? | 289 |
| Handguns as Products Unreasonably Dangerous Per Se | 291 |
| Rejecting the "Whipping-Boy" Approach to Tort Law: Well-Made Handguns Are Not Defective Products | 302 |
| B | Are Guns Defective Products If They Can Be Made Safer? | 308 |
| A Public Health Approach to Regulating Firearms as Consumer Products | 308 |
| C | Have Gun Manufacturers Negligently Marketed Guns to Criminals? | 320 |
| Merrill v. Navegar, Inc. 89 Calif. Rptr. 2d 146 (Calif. Ct. App. 1999), reversed, 110 Calif. Rptr. 2d 370 (Calif. 2001) | 327 |
| D | Government Plaintiff Litigation | 334 |
| Municipal Firearm Litigation: Ill Conceived from Any Angle | 337 |
| The Smith & Wesson Settlement | 347 |
| The Future | 355 |
| Permissions | 356 |
| Index | 358 |
| About the Editors | 368 |
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