Posted March 12, 2019 4:30 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Balance isn’t something we typically see on guns, particularly out of academia.

The bias throughout the nation, particularly in institutions who have a profound impact on American perceptions, tends to skew hard and to the left politically, particularly on things like the Second Amendment.

However, Duke Center for Firearms Law is claiming to seek to do just that.

The Duke Center for Firearms Law is searching for a scholarly alternative to the politically-charged national debate surrounding gun rights and regulation.

Joseph Blocher, Lanty L. Smith ’67 professor of law, and Darrell Miller, the Melvin G. Shimm professor of law, created the Center to advance non-partisan scholarship about the Second Amendment. The two co-directors are joined by Jake Charles, Law ’13, as the Center’s executive director.

Blocher said there is a lack of reliable scholarship on the Second Amendment and the constitutional questions it raises. These legal questions are especially important after the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller decision, in which the Supreme Court upheld the right to bear arms for individual’s private purposes, including self-defense.

“I think that there’s not enough attention paid in the scholarly community to this really important and complex and interesting and nuanced set of questions,” he said.

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Source:: Bearing Arms

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