Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - The Gun Show (audio/podcast)
Radiolab Presents: More Perfect - The Gun Show
mp3: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/radiolab_podcast/radiolab_podcast18thegunshowmp.mp3
Website: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/radiolab-presents-more-perfect-gun-show
The shooting in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018, reignited an increasingly familiar debate about guns in this country. Today, were re-releasing a More Perfect episode that aired just after the Las Vegas shooting last year that attempts to make sense of our countrys fraught relationship with the Second Amendment.
For nearly 200 years of our nations history, the Second Amendment was an all-but-forgotten rule about the importance of militias. But in the 1960s and 70s, a movement emerged led by Black Panthers and a recently-repositioned NRA that insisted owning a firearm was the right of each and every American. So began a constitutional debate that only the Supreme Court could solve. That didnt happen until 2008, when a Washington, D.C. security guard named Dick Heller made a compelling case.