Truth, Politics and Power: Gun Rights and Gun Control

Friday October 13 at 9 p.m. on News 88.9 KNPRAs the nation struggles to come to terms with the mass shooting in Las Vegas, host Neal Conan delves into the history of the debate between gun rights and gun control with UCLA Constitutional Law Specialist Adam Winkler, author of Gun Fight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America. The Founding Fathers required every adult white male to own a musket, and bring it to musters where it was inspected and registered. On this edition of Truth, Politics and Power, how a duty for community self defense evolved into an individual right to bear arms and how the laws changed with both weapons technology and the rise of the National Rifle Association. Plus restrictions on research into guns and gun deaths.

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Adam Winkler is a law professor at UCLA, specializing in constitutional law. He’s written for numerous newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, as well as offering legal commentary for broadcast outlets including MSNBC, the Newshour and NPR.

Winkler is the author of Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America. His forthcoming book, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, is due to be published in February 2018.

 

Dr. Frederick P. Rivara is a professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and holds the Children’s Hospital Guild Association Endowed Chair in Pediatric Health Outcomes Research at Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Rivara is an expert in injury control and and was founding president of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention. He has long-studied studied gun ownership and gun violence.