Timing is everything, and a new book from Joshua Horwitz and Casey Anderson ties in well with recent “reports†from the Department of Homeland Security on “rightwing extremists†and the one from the Missouri Information Analysis Center on the “modern militia movement.†  Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and Anderson, a Washington, D.C. attorney, call their book Guns, Democracy and the Insurrectionist Idea. So, in addition to being demonized as “rightwing extremists†and militia whackos, now gun rights activists – people who stand in defense of their fundamental civil right to keep and...
