A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance is essential to the success of any regulation. If gun ownership were prohibited, organized crime would step in to provide… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms for three purposes: (1) crime prevention or what we would today describe as self-defense; (2) national… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
A handgun ban is not realistically enforceable. Confiscating guns would require house-to-house searches and alienate the very individuals whose compliance is essential to the… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty. — Don Kates Copy Share Image
Children younger than 5 are twice as likely to die from ingesting household poisons than by gunfire - So the question for the Legislature… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
The 'militia' was the entire adult male citizenry, who were not simply allowed to keep their own arms, but affirmatively required to do so. — Don Kates Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
