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By Robert J. Spitzer. 210 pp. Chatham, N.J., Chatham House, 1995. $17.95. ISBN 1-56643-021-6.

Robert Spitzer's The Politics of Gun Control is a balanced and illuminating overview of the gun-control debate as it existed before the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing: a battle centered on crime and pitting an omnipotent National Rifle Association (NRA) against an isolated gun-control movement.

Chapter 2 stands out as a thoughtful, detailed analysis of the "talismanic" Second Amendment, its history, and the current debate surrounding it. Warning of the deleterious effect of "rights talk" — a term coined by constitutional scholar Mary Ann Glendon to mean "our increasing tendency to speak of what is most important to us in terms . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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