A Public Health Approach to Gun Violence, Legally Speaking

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.

Implicaciones del porte legal de armas en salud pública: Una mirada desde el caso colombiano

“…Recientemente, el interés global en aspectos asociados al porte legal de armas ha llegado a algunas revistas científicas de gran importancia global como "The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics" 12 ,"American Journal of Preventive Medicine" 13 , "Health Affairs" 14 , "Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology" 15 , "The Journal of Pediatrics" 16 y "Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health" 17 , entre otras.…”

Prevention of pesticide suicides and the right to life: The intersection of human rights and public health priorities

“…Similarly, restricting access to HHPs is especially important in cases of vulnerable agricultural populations living in LMICs without adequate access to information on pesticide harms, opportunities for protection from exposure, treatment of poisoning, and counseling in instances of distress . It is argued that, in these cases, public health considerations and rights of individuals to be free from, for example, second-hand smoke, gun violence, unsafe driving, or HHPs harms outweigh the freedom of choice to use these products by others (Ulrich 2019).…”