Title
Shoot to Stun
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-2-2008
Abstract
This New York Times op-ed piece argues that the recent Heller opinion, recognizing a constitutional right under the Second Amendment for a person to hold a loaded firearm in their house, does not have the broad practical implications for greater firearm use that many people seem to assume. It is the criminal law in each state that controls the use a firearm for defensive force, not the Second Amendment, and those provisions uniformly limit defensive firearm use in dramatic ways. Indeed, as non-lethal weapons become more effective and more available, the use of firearms, which by law constitute lethal force, become increasingly less justifiable under current law. Available for download at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1175283
Keywords
self-defense, non-lethal weapons, criminal law
Publication Title
New York Times
Repository Citation
Robinson, Paul H., "Shoot to Stun" (2008). Faculty Scholarship. 227.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/227
Publication Citation
NY Times, op-ed, July 2, 2008