@article{ref1,
title="Why regulate guns?",
journal="Journal of law, medicine and ethics",
year="2020",
author="Blocher, Joseph and Siegel, Reva B.",
volume="48",
number="Suppl 4",
pages="11-16",
abstract="Courts reviewing gun laws that burden Second Amendment rights ask how effectively the laws serve public safety - yet typically discuss public safety narrowly, without  considering the many dimensions of that interest gun laws serve. &quot;Public safety&quot; is  a social good: it includes the public's interest in physical safety as a good in  itself, and as a foundation for community and for the exercise of constitutional  liberties. Gun laws protect bodies from bullets - and Americans' freedom and  confidence to participate in every domain of our shared life, whether to attend  school, to shop, to listen to a concert, to gather for prayer, or to assemble in  peaceable debate. Courts must enforce the Second Amendment in ways that respect the  public health and constitutional reasons a democracy seeks to protect public safety. Lawyers and citizen advocates can help, by creating a richer record of their reasons  in seeking to enact laws regulating guns.This inquiry is urgent at a time when the  Supreme Court's new conservative majority may expand restrictions on gun laws beyond  the right to keep arms for self-defense in the home first recognized in District of  Columbia v. Heller in 2008.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1073-1105",
doi="10.1177/1073110520979395",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1073110520979395"
}