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Lecture

Jeremy Rosen
Challenging Conversations: Gun Control

Tuesday 5.04.2022

Summary

Professor Joyce Lee Malcolm, Professor Robert J. Spitzer, and Jeremy Rosen have an engaging conversation and debate about the state of gun control in America and how things got this bad.

Jeremy Rosen

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Manchester-born Jeremy Rosen was educated at Cambridge University England and Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He has practiced as an orthodox rabbi, as principal of Carmel College in the UK, and as professor at the Faculty for Comparative Religion in Antwerp, Belgium. He has written and lectured extensively in the UK and the US, where he now resides and was the rabbi of the Persian-Jewish community in Manhattan.

Robert Spitzer

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Robert J. Spitzer (PhD. Cornell) is distinguished service professor emeritus of political science at SUNY Cortland. He is the author of 16 books, including four on the presidency and six on gun policy.

Joyce Lee Malcolm

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Joyce Lee Malcolm is a constitutional scholar focusing on individual rights and war and society. She is Patrick Henry Professor of Constitutional Law and the Second Amendment, emeritus at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, and a member of the National Council on the Humanities. She is the author of eight books and numerous articles. Her award-winning book, The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life (2018), was praised in the Washington Post as “a fine biography, the best in recent memory.” Her essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the London Telegraph, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the BBC News online. She has also been a guest on numerous radio and TV programs.

The answer’s no.

Who is the gun lobby? I mean, five million people bought guns for the first time. It’s ordinary people. I don’t think that the gun lo- The gun lobby would have no power if it weren’t that there were millions of people who supported.