Horowitz, Joshua <br/><br/>
Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea 

 - Ann Arbor  University of Michigan Press  20090429 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> When gun enthusiasts talk about constitutional liberties guaranteed by the Second Amendment, they are referring to freedom in a general sense, but they also have something more specific in mind---freedom from government oppression. They argue that the only way to keep federal authority in check is to arm individual citizens who can, if necessary, defend themselves from an aggressive government. In the past decade, this view of the proper relationship between government and individual rights and the insistence on a role for private violence in a democracy has been co-opted by the conservative movement. As a result, it has spread beyond extreme militia groups to influence state and national policy.  In Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea, Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson set the record straight. They challenge the proposition that more guns equal more freedom and expose Insurrectionism as a true threat to freedom in the United States today. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>mpub.180934 9780472900886 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.3998/mpub.180934  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Political Science Democracy Gun politics in the United States Insurrectionary anarchism National Rifle Association Second Amendment to the United States Constitution