Few provisions of the Constitution generate more passionate debate than the Second Amendment. What does it actually protect? How has its meaning evolved since it was ratified? And how should Americans understand the fraught arguments over individual rights, public safety, and constitutional interpretation?
Join us for a probing examination of the Second Amendment and America’s deeply contested relationship with guns during a conversation with Saul Cornell, a professor of American history at Fordham University and one of the nation’s leading authorities on early American constitutional thought and Mike McIntire, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of Ricochet: Guns, Greed and The American Way of Violence.