Barrington Public Library and East Bay Citizens for Peace present “Guns: Public Policy, Politics and Law”, a talk by Professor Carl T. Bogus of Roger Williams University School of Law on Tuesday, September 17 at 7 PM in the library auditorium.
Professor Bogus will discuss the issues of gun control and gun rights in America including why gun control is so politically difficult to achieve. He will address the legal framework of the Second Amendment, and how different kinds of gun control either have reduced or increased homicides, injuries and suicides in the past.
Professor Bogus has spoken and written extensively on the topics of gun control and the Second Amendment. His writings have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, USA Today, Washington Times, Providence Journal, The Nation, CNN websites and more. He is the editor of The Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms, published in 2002.
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To learn more about Professor Bogus visit www.carltbogus.com.
A question and answer session will follow the talk.
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Free and open to all.
East Bay Citizens for Peace is a grassroots organization committed to peaceful solutions to conflict and social and economic justice through open, respectful dialogue. To learn more visit www.eastbaycitizens4peace.org or call 401-247-9738.
Barrington Public Library is located at 281 County Road, Barrington, RI. Visit on the web at www.barringtonlibrary.org or call 401-247-1920.
