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Alani Person

ENC 2135 Section 073

Tiffany Isaacs

25 February 2019

Annotated Bibliography

Topic: ​How many guns are in the United States? What does the Second Amendment say? Is the

United States gun homicide rate really that high? Are there countries with as many guns as the

United States but less crime? What is a semi-automatic gun? How often do gun owners actually

prevent crimes? How often are people killed by their own gun? Did the federal ban on assault

weapons affect crime? Do states with strict gun control laws have less gun violence? Has

American public opinion shifted on gun control? How are guns purchased and transferred in

America?

Blocher, Joseph, and Darrell A. H. Miller. "What is Gun Control? Direct Burdens, Incidental

Burdens, and the Boundaries of the Second Amendment." University of Chicago Law

Review 83.1 (2016): 295-355. Web.

This article provided useful clarification to many of the specifics of gun control. The article

differentiates between the types of regulations that guns have seen from the constitution itself

and more specific regulations. The article also calls into questions the legality of gun control

laws over civil suits and other instances such as disturbing the peace or assault.
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Fleming, Anthony, Dylan S. McLean, and Raymond Tatalovich. "Debating Gun Control in

Canada and the United States: Divergent Policy Frames and Political Cultures." World

Affairs 181.4 (2018): 348-71. Web.

Much of my first essay dealt with gun control specifically in Australia and how they successfully

eradicated mass shootings with the implementation of some various gun control laws. This

article deals with similar gun control laws in Canada. The article deals with three different types

of gun control: "restrictive" gun policies, "punitive" gun policies, "lenient" gun policies .

Lewis, J. S. "The Relationship between Gun Control Strictness and Mass Murder in the United

States: A National Study 2009-2015." International Social Science Review 94.2 (2018):

1-23. Web.

This article explores the relationship between strictness of guns and the rising mass murder rate

in America. The article is reinforced by a study that shows over half of Americans are in favor

of stricter laws and that support only increases with the increase of mass shootings in the United

States.