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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Benefits of Gun Ownership | |
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| The Benefits of Guns for Personal Self-Defense | |
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| Basic Self-Defense Principles | |
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| The Effectiveness of Guns for Self-Defense | |
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| Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America | |
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| How Many Defensive Gun Uses (DGUs)? | |
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| Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun | |
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| The Gun Debate's New Mythical Number: How Many Defensive Uses Per Year? | |
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| Gun Ownership and Carrying as a Deterrent to Crime | |
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| Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms | |
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| Gun Carrying | |
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| More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws | |
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| "Lotts" More Guns and Other Fallacies Infecting the Gun Control Debate | |
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| Recreational Use | |
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| The Costs of Firearms | |
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| Homicides and Other Intentional Shootings | |
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| Firearms and Violence: Interpreting the Connection | |
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| Suicide | |
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| The Public Health Case for the Safe Storage of Firearms: Adolescent Suicides Add One More "Smoking Gun" | |
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| Accidental Shootings | |
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| Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control | |
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| The Financial Costs of Firearms Crime | |
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| Fear | |
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| Fear of Crime in the United States: Avenues for Research and Policy | |
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| Philosophical Roots of the Right to Arms and of Opposition to That Right | |
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| Self-Defense as a Natural Right | |
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| In Defence of Titus Annius Milo | |
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| The Rights of War and Peace | |
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| Leviathan | |
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| Second Treatise on Government | |
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| On Crime and Punishment | |
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| Arms Bearing as an Incident of Citizenship | |
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| The Politics | |
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| The Art of War | |
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| Letter to Samuel Kercheval (July 12, 1816) | |
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| Advice to the Privileged Orders | |
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| The Propensity of Absolute Rulers to Disarm Their Subjects | |
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| The Politics | |
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| The Republic | |
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| The Laws | |
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| The Art of War | |
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| The Six Bookes of a Commonweale | |
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| The American Crisis | |
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| The Citizen Militia as Dual Safeguard against Tyranny and Foreign Invasion | |
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| Discourses on Livy | |
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| A Discourse of Government with Relation to Militias | |
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| The Federalist No. 46 | |
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| Doubts about the Efficacy of Militias | |
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| An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | |
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| The Federalist No. 29 | |
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| The Right to Arms in the Second Amendment and State Constitutions: Cases and Commentary | |
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| The Second Amendment in the Supreme Court | |
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| Presser v. Illinois, 116 U.S. 252 (1886) | |
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| United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939) | |
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| The Second Amendment in Lower Federal Courts | |
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| Hickman v. Block, 81 F. 3d 98 (1996) | |
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| United States v. Emerson, 46 F. Supp. 2d 598 (N.D. Tex. 1999) | |
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| Scholarly Commentary on the Second Amendment | |
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| A Critical Guide to the Second Amendment | |
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| Commonplace or Anachronism: the Standard Model, the Second Amendment, and the Problem of History in Contemporary Constitutional Theory | |
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| The Right to Keep and Bear Arms under State Constitutions | |
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| Andrews v. State, 50 Tennessee (3 Heisk.) 165 (1871) | |
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| City of Salina v. Blaksley, 83 P. 619 (Kans. 1905) | |
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| State v. Kessler, 614 P. 2d 94 (Ore. 1980) | |
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| Arnold v. City of Cleveland, 616 N.E. 2d 163 (Ohio 1993) | |
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| Guns and Identity: Race, Gender, Class, and Culture | |
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| Race | |
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| The Second Amendment: Toward an Afro-Americanist Reconsideration | |
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| Race, Riots, and Guns | |
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. A. A. Arms, Inc. et al | |
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| Guns Don't Kill Black People, Other Blacks Do | |
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| Gender | |
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| Why Annie Can't Get Her Gun: A Feminist Perspective on the Second Amendment | |
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| Why Packing a Pistol Perpetuates Patriarchy | |
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| Class and Culture | |
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| Submission Is Not the Answer: Lethal Violence, Microcultures of Criminal Violence and the Right to Self-Defense | |
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| Firearms Ownership by Class and Culture | |
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| Lethal Violence Victimization by Class and Culture | |
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| Guns and Civil Liability | |
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| Are Guns Defective Products on the Theory That Their Risk to Society Outweighs Their Usefulness? | |
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| Handguns as Products Unreasonably Dangerous Per Se | |
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| Rejecting the "Whipping-Boy" Approach to Tort Law: Well-Made Handguns Are Not Defective Products | |
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| Are Guns Defective Products If They Can Be Made Safer? | |
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| A Public Health Approach to Regulating Firearms as Consumer Products | |
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| Have Gun Manufacturers Negligently Marketed Guns to Criminals? | |
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| Merrill v. Navegar, Inc. 89 Calif. Rptr. 2d 146 (Calif. Ct. App. 1999), reversed, 110 Calif. Rptr. 2d 370 (Calif. 2001) | |
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| Government Plaintiff Litigation | |
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| Municipal Firearm Litigation: Ill Conceived from Any Angle | |
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| The Smith & Wesson Settlement | |
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| The Future | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Editors | |