@article{ref1,
title="True threats, self-defense, and the Second Amendment",
journal="Journal of law, medicine and ethics",
year="2020",
author="Vaseghi, Bardia and Blocher, Joseph",
volume="48",
number="Suppl 4",
pages="112-118",
abstract="Does the [USA] Second Amendment protect those who threaten others by negligently or recklessly wielding firearms? What line separates constitutionally legitimate gun  displays from threatening activities that can be legally proscribed? This article  finds guidance in the First Amendment doctrine of true threats, which permits  punishment of &quot;statements where the speaker means to communicate a serious  expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence to a particular  individual or group of individual.&quot; The Second Amendment, like the First, should not  be read to protect those who threaten unlawful violence. And to the degree that the  constitution requires a culpable mental state (mens rea) in such circumstances, the  appropriate standard should be recklessness.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1073-1105",
doi="10.1177/1073110520979409",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1073110520979409"
}