Podcast
Strict Scrutiny
Elie Mystal highlighted the book as a detailed and magnificent work that offered an originalist perspective on the Second Amendment by linking it to the preservation of slave militias used to suppress revolts. He praised the author’s analysis and noted the conversation around it as terrific for the audience.
Episode: Allow Me To Retort
This book was mentioned in the context of providing an originalist argument for the Second Amendment by linking it to the preservation of slave militias used for putting down slave revolts.
No Carol Anderson and I did a talk here at the Commonwealth Club a couple of months ago in her book The Second Race and Guns and a Fatally Unequal America really details it and it's magnificent so for all of those who are in the audience it was a really terrific conversation and Carol Anderson explains this as well but she sort of makes an originalist argument about the Second Amendment.