CONTENTS

Introduction:	Gun Love
Chapter 1:	Historical Context of the Second Amendment
Chapter 2:	Savage War
Chapter 3:	Slave Patrols
Chapter 4:	Confederate Guerrillas to Outlaw Icons
Chapter 5:	Myth of the Hunter
Chapter 6:	The Second Amendment as a Covenant
Chapter 7:	Mass Shootings
Chapter 8:	White Nationalists, the Militia Movement, and Tea Party Patriots
Chapter 9:	Eluding and Resisting the Historical White Supremacy of the Second Amendment
Conclusion:	History Is Not Past
	Acknowledgments Notes Index About the Author