Washington Post reporter Dan Keating recently wrote an article describing the victims of gun violence. Keating found that the victims of gun homicide in the United States are overwhelmingly black men, while the victims of gun suicide are overwhelmingly white men. Keaten discusses his article on Talk of the Nation (30:19) along with Mark Rosenberg, epidemiologist and president and CEO, The Task Force for Global Health.
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Larry David v. Jury Duty
In this short clip (1:15) from Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David takes an innovative approach to shirking jury duty.
More on Gideon: An “Unfunded Mandate”?
More on Gideon: An “Unfunded Mandate”?
Fifty years later, the American legal profession has failed to answer “Gideon’s trumpet,” or so says Stephen Bright, visiting Yale Law professor and president of Southern Center for Human Rights. According to Bright, Gideon v. Wainwright represents essentially an unfunded mandate.
Following Attorney General Eric Holder’s statements that the nation’s public defense is “in a state of crisis,” NPR’s Talk of the Nation explored the state of the public defense system with Bright as well as Douglas Wilson, Colorado State public defender.
This discussion runs 30:16 minutes.
Yesterday was the fiftieth anniversary of the seminal decision as was discussed in yesterday’s blog post: Gideon Turns 50.
Gideon Turns 50
Fifty years ago today, the Supreme Court handed down the seminal decision of Gideon v. Wainwright. In Gideon, the Court unanimously held that all indigent defendants charged with a felonies are guaranteed appointed counsel. This CBS Sunday Morning story provides background on the historic decision. It runs 2:35 minutes.
The Ethics of Gun Control
On the Philosophy Bites podcast, philosopher Jeff McMahan discusses the morality of gun control with David Edmonds (19:07). Essentially, the premise of the podcast is whether the Second Amendment would be established if we were starting a society from scratch. Although McMahan argues in favor of gun control, at times I found his discussion so academic that it seemed like it was more of an argument against philosophy. However, the podcast is worth listening to since it is an interesting take on the gun control debate because it questions the very soundness of the Second Amendment.