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born 1967 United States
Adam Winkler (born July 25, 1967) is a professor of constitutional law at the UCLA School of Law.
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The Founding Fathers instituted gun laws so intrusive that, were they running for office today, the NRA would not endorse them.
In the 1920s and ’30s, the NRA was at the forefront of legislative efforts to enact gun control.
For most of American history, the court has been decidedly favorable to business, regardless of whether the majority of justices was liberal or conservative.
We the Corporations (2018)
[T]he Citizens United and Hobby Lobby cases are just the proverbial tip of the iceberg.
We the Corporations (2018)
Despite the fact that corporations have never been subjected to systematic opression like women and minorities... today corporations have nearly the same rights as individuals... a considerable share of the Constitution's most fundamental protections.
We the Corporations (2018)
Frontier towns with and without gun legislation were violent places, more violent than family-friendly farming communities and Eastern cities of the time, but those without restrictions tended to have worse violence. “I've never seen any rhetoric from that time period saying that the only thing that's going to reduce violence is more people with guns,” says Winkler. “It seems to be much more of a 20th-century attitude than one associated with the Wild West.”
“People were allowed to own guns, and everyone did own guns [in the West], for the most part,” says Winkler. “Having a firearm to protect yourself in the lawless wilderness from wild animals, hostile native tribes, and outlaws was a wise idea. But when you came into town, you had to either check your guns if you were a visitor or keep your guns at home if you were a resident.”