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To contact Paul Hager, send e-mail to: paulhager@paulhager.org

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Last modified: 2 March 2005

Why I Carry - Introduction and explanation

• Introduction #1 - 22 October, 2000
• What it's like to carry #2 - 29 October, 2000
• Why women carry #3 - 5 November, 2000
• Concealed versus open carry #4 - 19 November, 2000
• Your friends and neighbors #5 - 10 December, 2000

Why I Carry - The Journal for 2000

• Reflections on the first week - part 1 #6a - 12 December, 2000
• Reflections on the first week - part 2 #6b - 17 December, 2000
• Aftermath of the press release #7 - 24 December, 2000
• The new millenium #8 - 31 December, 2000

Why I Carry - The Journal for 2001

• Reciprocity and proselytizing #9 - 7 January, 2001
• Meetings and Montessori and Greens, oh my #10 - 14 January, 2001
• Bye, Bye Billy #11 - 21 January, 2001
• Reflections on "Goodbye Earl" #12 - 28 January, 2001
• The most hated man in Bloomington #13 - 11 February, 2001
• The birth of a movement? #14 - 25 February, 2001
• Always on duty #15 - 18 March, 2001
• Guns, kids, and teaching responsibility #16 - 23 June, 2001
• A brief report at the halfway point #17 - 1 July, 2001
• "Don't tread on me" #18 - 8 July, 2001
• Cretinous rightist #19 - 22 July, 2001
• "I am not overprotective" #20 - 29 July, 2001
• Teaching Liana to shoot #21 - 12 August, 2001
• A political dilemma #22 - 29 August, 2001
• Defending against "Infamy" #23 - 12 September, 2001
• The end of the Open Carry Campaign #24 - 16 September, 2001
• Breaking the law #25 - 28 October, 2001
• The quest for a lawyer #26 - 24 November, 2001

Why I Carry - The Journal for 2004

• Open carry in Virginia #27 - 15 July, 2004

Other Writings on the 2^nd Amendment

• Some preliminary thoughts on Gary Wills' New York Review of Books article
• Instructive Tales: The Establishment Clause, the First Amendment, and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
• Excerpt from Report of the ICLU Commission on the 2nd Amendment and Gun Control

Gun Myths

• Gun myth 1: The 2nd Amendment is a dangerous anachronism because guns are much more lethal now than they were when it was ratified.

Links of Interest

• The Libertarian Corner. Formerly hosted by I.U. Has older writings plus "Marijuana Myths"
• Fighting Back: Crime, Self-Defense, and the Right to Carry a Handgun, by Jeffrey R Snyder, Cato Policy Analysis No. 284 (1997). An excellent overview of the subject, with numerous references, for serious students of the subject.
• Clayton Cramer's Home Page. I first encountered Clayton on the talk.politics.guns newsgroup. His information and participation in debates online influenced my thinking on the right of self-defense.
• Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO). The premier RKBA organization.
• State Constitutions' RKBA provisions. Pete Drum's compilation.
• The Pink Pistols. A Gay-Lesbian pro-RKBA group.
• Keep and Bear Arms - Gun Owners' Page.Site devoted to issues surrounding RKBA.
• Cato Institute. Washington, D.C. based libertarian think-tank.