This difficult issue requires balancing of many principles:
Balancing the Second Amendment right to bear arms and the desire to stymie active shooters and murderers indeed presents a tough, controversial issue. But we actually think much can be done about this conundrum.
Federal action generally should be a last resort. People using guns to harm people may be the type of issue, however, that necessitates federal control.
Second Amendment rights and concepts have to mean something. In the first of two posts, we use a principled analysis to unpack this difficult constitutional question.
