Interesting Papers

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1. Rivrdog says:

   September 17, 2010 at 5:41 pm

   The problem with the hoity-toity Yale Law Review is that they “collate” all the ideas under one theme: let’s debate what kind of gun restrictions the society WILL accept”.

   Horse puckey. Don’t be fooled. The actual question is not a DEBATE at all, it is a DEFENSE of citizens’ absolute right to keep and bear arms according to the Second Amendment.

   There is NO debate. This is incremental encroachment on the 2A. Reject it, and never be afraid of ANYONE because of the academic accolades before or after their names.

   Unless and until the “Law Reviews” acknowledge that a position of absolutism actually exists in regard to the 2A, no one need pay any attention to these colloquia. You don’t “nuance” the 2A, you accept it whole or you stand against it, that is all. No middle ground.
2. Mad Rocket Scientist says:

   September 18, 2010 at 3:29 pm

   My understanding of the Cultural Cognition project is that it exists to understand how culture influences our perceptions of risk.

   From the site:

   Who fears guns, who fears gun control, and why? Project members use the cultural theory of risk to answer these questions.

   From the outset, the Cultural Cognition Project has been focused on the American gun control debate. That debate is naturally framed as one between competing risk perceptions: that too little gun control will increase deliberate shootings and gun accidents; and that too much will render law-abiding citizens unable to defend themselves from violent predation. Associated most famously with the work of Mary Douglas and Aaron Wildavsky, the cultural theory of risk posits that individuals selectively attend to risk in a way that reflects and reinforces their preferred vision of society. Consistent with this thesis, CCP members have found that which “gun risk” individuals take more seriously is indeed strongly predicted by their cultural worldviews. Persons who hold egalitarian and communitarian worldviews worry more about crime and gun accidents, an anxiety that coheres with their negative association of guns with patriarchy, racism, and selfish indifference to the well-being of others. Persons of a hierarchical and individualistic worldviews, in contrast, tend to see guns as safe, and worry much more about the danger of being rendered defenseless against attack; this perception of risk coheres with their positive associations of guns with traditional social roles (father, protector, provider) and individualistic virtues (self-reliance, courage, physical prowess).

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