- Description
Recent armed protests in legislatures and in streets across America show that guns can do more than inflict physical injury — they can threaten the public sphere on which a constitutional democracy depends. It follows that gun regulation can do more than prevent physical harm — it can also protect citizens' equal claims to security and to the exercise of liberties, whether or not they are armed and however they may differ by race, sex, or viewpoint.
- Issue areas
- Crime and Safety
- Government Reform
- Document type
- Report/Whitepaper
- Geography
- North America / United States
- Copyright
- Copyright 2021 by Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. All rights reserved.
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- Title
- Guns and Democracy
- Publication date
- 2021-06-29
- Publication year
- 2021
- Authors
- Joseph Blocher , Reva B. Siegel
- Copyright holder(s)
- Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law
- Geographical focus
- North America / United States
- Keywords
- heller, brennan center, gun rights, CENTER FOR JUSTICE
- Document type
- Report/Whitepaper
- URL
- https://gunviolence.issuelab.org/resource/guns-and-democracy
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- Issue Lab
