Carrying Guns, Contesting Gender
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Carrying guns in public: legal and public health implications.
In District of Columbia v. Heller, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to own handguns in the home for protection, invalidating a Washington, D.C. law banning most handgun possession. The Heller decision, however, provided lower courts with little guidance regarding how to judge the constitutionality of gun laws other than handgun bans. Neverthe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Contexts
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1536-5042,1537-6052
DOI: 10.1177/1536504214567850