(Dis)Arming the madman: sane supremacy and the Second Amendment. Issue 7 (9th August 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Procknow, Greg
• Is Part Of: Disability & society. Volume 33:Issue 7(2018)
• Page Start: 1165
• Page End: 1169
• Publication Date: 2018-08-09
• Subjects: Gun violence -- Mad Studies -- sane supremacy -- Second Amendment -- Donald Trump; People with disabilities -- Periodicals; People with disabilities -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Special education -- Periodicals; Rehabilitation -- Periodicals; 362.4
• DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2018.1476121
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0968-7599

Abstract

Abstract: The protection of American mental health consumers' Second Amendment rights is the 'mad' liberation issue of the twenty-first century. Federal laws currently dispossess the differently minded of their Second Amendment access and rights to bear firearms. In response to a spate of school shootings, 'Red flag laws' are used in an effort to circumvent mad citizens' rights to self-preservation and defence. In this article I am proposing neither a political-left nor right side of the aisle position, but rather a bipartisan, anti-sanist stance, where I call for an end to America's contemporary era of sane supremacy that strips the mad citizenry of their rights to own firearms.