Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
1-8-2024
Abstract
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” The United States is one of three countries worldwide that provide a constitutional right to bear arms, but the only country where this right is not accompanied by a restrictive condition. Despite the apparent gun crisis that increasingly characterizes the United States, legislators struggle to implement regulation due to the Supreme Court’s classification of the Second Amendment as a right to self-defense. However, where the initial purpose of the Second Amendment was to equip civilians as members of the militia to ensure the security of the newly independent United States, it has, in turn, evolved into a loophole for domestic terrorism. Thus, the death count resulting from lack of adequate gun regulation now surpasses the casualties and represents the civil anarchy the United States was initially attempting to prevent.
This post was originally published on the Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review on January 8, 2024. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above.
Recommended Citation
Fantuzzi, Jillian, "Constitutional Constraint: The United States Should Follow in New Zealand’s Gun Reform Footsteps" (2024). Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review Blog. 98.
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/ciclr-online/98
