On Jan 18, 2008, at 9:53 PM, Guy Smith wrote:
> Some (undefined) time ago, a member of this list presented a
> statistical
> roll-up of peer reviewed articles that made a judgment on if the 2nd
> Amendment did-or-did-not support and individual right. As I recall he
> determined that the ratio was 30:1 in favor of the individual
> rights theory.
>
> 1) Since the list server doesn't have a great search engine,
> I cannot
> find that piece. Does anyone have that post (or know of a better
> search for
> digging into the FirearmRegProf archives)?
>
> 2) Has the tally been updated?
>
> I was asked by a reporter about this ratio and wanted to back-up my
> memory,
> as well as use that data to handicap the Heller decision (thus far
> I have
> not found any bookmakers posting their odds on the case).
The only one I could find was the second oldest posting I have
archived from this list:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Scholarly Consensus on 2nd Amendment?
Date: May 28, 1999 1:47:03 PM MST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A fairly complete recent list can be found in one of the early
footnotes for
Kopel, "The Second Amendment in the 19th Century," 1998 BYU L Rev.,
available at http://i2i.org/crimjust.htm
Dave Kopel
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Boucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: FW: 2A: Scholarly Consensus on 2nd Amendment?
> Thanks, Gene.
>
> That list was a couple years old. Does anyone have a list of what was
> published in 1997-1999 (so far)?
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
>
>>
>> "Volokh, Eugene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/13/99 07:45PM >>>
>>
-----Original Message-----
[snip]
>>>> Don Kates once published a bibliography of every recent Law
>>>> Review article on the 2nd Am.,
>>>> divided into "individual rights," "states' rights," and "other".
>>>> Does anyone on
>>>> the list have an up-to-date version of such an annotated
>>>> bibliography?
>>>> [snip]
>> Of the 11 peer-reviewed articles claiming the Second Amendment is
>> a collective states' right, 5 are by employees of Handgun Control
>> Inc or
>> the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence and 3 are by students. Of
>> the 51 peer-reviewed articles noting that the Second Amendment
>> guarantees
>> the individual right of the peple to keep and bear arms, 4 are by
>> attorneys employed by the National Rifle Association. Excluding
>> students and
>> employees of lobbying organizations then, 47 support the
>> individual right view and 3 support the collective right view.
>>
>> [snippety -snip]
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