WE ARE DIMINISHED…

I just learned that Professor Don Kates passed away on the first of the month. Don was a personal and family friend, my student in some things but my teacher in more, and one of the deans of the gun owners’ civil rights movement.

A classic example of the thinking liberal who realized restricting gun ownership caused more bad than good, Don rode with the Freedom Riders as a young man, and clerked with William Kunstler.  Don stood alongside other famous liberal thinkers and doers who had come to the same realization: Marc Benenson, for example, and Carol Ruth Silver.

Mutual friend Eugene Volokh, another stalwart of the movement, offers his remembrance here.

Goodbye, my friend, and a heartfelt thanks for all you have done.

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