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Firearm ownership is difficult to measure, but all sources agree that millions of Americans have guns for defense. Defensive gun ownership appears to increase with fear of crime & with concerns about collective security. How often victims use guns against offenders is controversial; some data suggest that armed resistance is rare, but successful, while other data suggest that it is very common. 3 Tables, 1 Figure. Adapted from the source document.

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This essay traces the impact of the wider ideological landscape regarding "identity politics," interpretive practice, and literature of the 1970s on Judith Fetterley's The Resisting Reader. Specifically, it tracks the traces of Black and women of color feminist organizing legible in Fetterley's text, as well as those left by social movements operating at the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. Though these traces go unattributed, this article argues that their presence offers an opportunity to read, as Fetterley might put it, a closed system from "without." The author's resistant reading of Fetterley's text suggests how her "radical feminism" calls for a distinct attention to the materialist operations of academic and literary institutions in an investigation of their racialized, patriarchal power.

In his address at West Point on June 1, 2002, President George W. Bush appeared to be signaling America's willingness to regard the mere possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by potential enemies as grounds for an anticipatory war. Historically, however, a clear distinction has been drawn between preemptive and preventive, or anticipatory, war, with the latter regarded as illegitimate. The National Security Strategy announced by the president on September 20, 2002, was more conventional in its approach to preemption, but doubts remain as to whether the old distinction can be preserved. And this discussion is taking place in the context of a specific problem, namely the apparent desire of Iraq to obtain WMD and the determination of the United States, and, less clearly expressed, the UN Security Council, to prevent this from happening.