RT Book
T1 Weapon of choice: fighting gun violence while respecting gun rights
A1 Ayres, Ian 1959-
A2 Vars, Fredrick E.
LA English
PP Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England
PB Harvard University Press
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1694228274
AB Preface: Fred's story -- Introduction -- Part I. Empowering self-restriction: Donna's Law -- Analogies, choices, and constraints -- Laboratories of democracy -- Part II. Harnessing others' association preferences: Emails and the associational marketplace -- Libertarian contracting and its limits -- Privatizing gun-free zones -- Part III. Harnessing others' information: Symptom-based gun removal orders -- Unlawful possession petitions -- Incentivizing bottom-up gun control.
AB Ayres and Vars identify ten policies that can be immediately adopted at the state level to reduce the number of gun-related deaths without affecting the rights of gun owners. For example, Donna's Law, a voluntary program whereby individuals can choose to restrict their ability to purchase or possess firearms, can significantly decrease suicide rates. Amending Red Flag statutes, which allow judges to restrict access to guns when an individual has shown evidence of dangerousness, can give police flexible and effective tools to keep people safe. Encouraging the use of unlawful possession petitions can help communities remove guns from more than a million Americans who are legally disqualified from owning them. By embracing these and other new forms of decentralized gun control, the United States can move past partisan gridlock and save lives now"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV7436
SN 9780674241091
K1 gun control : United States
K1 Firearms ownership : United States
K1 USA : Schusswaffe : Waffenrecht