TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - Why regulate guns?
JO  - Journal of law, medicine and ethics
A1  - Blocher, Joseph
A1  - Siegel, Reva B.
SP  - 11
EP  - 16
VL  - 48
IS  - Suppl 4
N2  - 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. "Public safety" 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1073-1105
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1073110520979395
ID  - ref1
ER  -