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hostility as the Second Amendment, particularly in relation to the topic
of gun prohibition. This subject routinely causes many well-intentioned
people of whatever view to give up all pretense of courtesy and reason
in favor of ad hominem attacks on those with whom they disagree. Readers
of history professor Joyce Lee Malcolm's To Keep and Bear Arms: The
Origins of an Anglo-American Right will find these ugly by-products
of the contemporary conflict refreshingly absent. Malcolm clearly keeps
her distance from any broad normative judgments about the social utilities
or costs of civilian firearms possession, offering instead a sober,
scholarly, historical discussion of the Amendment's origins. Meticulously
tracing the British history of regulations on firearms ownership from
the Middle Ages on, she provides a detailed and illuminating history
that includes the English Bill of Rights and, a century later, the American
one. Because it is only in this historical context that the Second Amendment's
meaning can be fully understood and appreciated, Malcolm's book is essential
reading for anyone interested in this complex and controversial subject.
