Description
Vox senior correspondent Ian Millhiser talks with law professor Joseph Blocher and historian Carol Anderson about the Second Amendment, the triumph of the NRA's vision for that amendment, and an upcoming Supreme Court case that endangers more than a century of American gun control laws.
References:
The Positive Second Amendment Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller, Joseph Blocher
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, Carol Anderson
Hosts:
Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser), senior correspondent, Vox
Credits:
Sofi LaLonde, producer & engineer
Libby Nelson, editorial advisor
Amber Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts
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