Gun-rights pioneer Don Kates has died He helped bring the Second Amendment into the legal mainstream. (H/T F.)
Eugene Volokh has a little more, including Kates’ unlikely background. (H/T LA)
Gun-rights pioneer Don Kates has died He helped bring the Second Amendment into the legal mainstream. (H/T F.)
Eugene Volokh has a little more, including Kates’ unlikely background. (H/T LA)
Don Kates was one of the few gun-rights writers in the 1970s and 80s. Gun control had been ascendant since GCA 1968, and stayed so until 1986, so he took heat for his work.
He was one of the first “liberals” who started anti-gun, studied the issue, and “saw the light.” A big part of the value in what he published was to other, reasonable researchers who met him with skepticism, but were won over when their own studies confirmed his.
For a lot of us who were already trying to drain the swamp, “The Red Book,” Restricting Handguns: The Liberal Skeptics Speak Out, (1979) was the first breath of fresh air in a long time.
Vaya con Dios.