A Public Health Approach to Gun Violence, Legally Speaking

Authors

Michael Ulrich, Boston University School of Public HealthFollow

Author granted license

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 2019

ISSN

1073-1105

Publisher

American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics

Language

en-US

Abstract

The call for a public health approach to gun violence has largely ignored what role the nascent Second Amendment jurisprudence will play in hindering change. Given the state interest for infringing on Second Amendment rights is nearly always public safety, public health law doctrine provides an apt framework for analysis.

Recommended Citation

Michael Ulrich, A Public Health Approach to Gun Violence, Legally Speaking , in 47 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 112 (2019).
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