Taking Aim: Gun Control and the Second Amendment
All reading material listed here follows this post. 
Monday, January 21st:
Topic: “Should the Second Amendment be repealed?”

Reading: Kurt Eichenwald, “Let’s repeal the Second Amendment” Vanity Fair, January 3rd 2013

Supplementary Readings:

• George Will, “Repeal the Second Amendment” The Dispatch March 1991
• Jeffery Goldberg Atlantic Monthly December 2012 “The Case for More Guns (And More Gun Control)”

The intention of Symposium GBI is to facilitate a discussion on the issue of gun control. We are not promoting the opinions of a particular author. For the purpose of this seminar, participants are invited and encouraged to send us favorite op-ed pieces and articles on the issue of gun control and mass killings – a list will be distributed to the group.
 
Monday, February 4th
2008 Supreme Court Case: DC v Heller (District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008))
If you’ve never read a Supreme Court Case, here is your chance! Go directly to the source – no longer will you need to rely solely on hearsay.


Readings are available here:
Kurt Eichenwald, “Let’s repeal the Second Amendment”
George Will, Repeal the Second Amendment
Atlantic Monthly: The Case for more Guns (and more Gun Control)
Full text: District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008)
Summary of DC v Heller