Book · 2011 · Gun control
Gunfight
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I want to highlight particularly a passage from the book Gunfight by Adam Winkler. And Gunfight, there's actually like five books titled Gunfight. Um I think one of them is like seemed to me slightly grifty.
Why people recommend it
Gunfight by Adam Winkler is a comprehensive history of the Second Amendment and how gun rights have been interpreted and fought over throughout American history. Robert Evans examined the book extensively on Behind the Bastards while investigating the life and background of Harlon Carter, the man who militarized the police and the National Rifle Association. Evans highlighted Winkler's work as a worthwhile, non-reactionary text that covers vast historical ground regarding American firearm laws, distinguishing it sharply from other similarly titled books of lesser quality. However, Evans also offered a critical perspective on a specific portion of the book, expressing reservations about Winkler's description of Carter's fatal shooting of Raymon Casiano at age seventeen. Evans argued that Winkler's narrative framed the incident in a way that portrayed Carter as defending his mother, raising questions about that particular framing. Despite this critique, Evans maintained that the book offered substantial value, explaining that Winkler's broad scope in covering the entire history of the Second Amendment may have led him to skim over the intricate details of Carter's early life and specific case while still providing an overall informative historical account.
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Robert Evans Quote, "Carter loved guns from childhood. He was an excellent shot and would go on to win two national shoo… 5
“I want to highlight particularly a passage from the book Gunfight by Adam Winkler and Gunfight. There's actually like five books titled Gunfight. ... The good one, the one that you would actually be worth reading is Winkler's uh gunfight. He's a he's a UCLA professor. Um and gunfight is a critical history of the battle over the Second Amendment”
“I want to highlight particularly a passage from the book Gunfight by Adam Winkler. And Gunfight, there's actually like five books titled Gunfight. Um I think one of them is like seemed to me slightly grifty.”
“Quote, "Carter loved guns from childhood. He was an excellent shot and would go on to win two national shooting titles and set 44 national shooting records during his lifetimes. His most infamous shot, however, came at the age of 17”
“It's again, the book is not at all rightwing or reactionary. There's a lot of good stuff in there. The fact that he describes Cassiano's murder in this way, though, makes me question some stuff”
“I I I I think in part, you know, Winkler's covering a lot of ground, right? Because his book is a whole he's not it's not focused on Carter. a whole history of like kind of the the how the Second Amendment has been interpreted”
