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Volume 360:2360-2365 May 28, 2009 Number 22
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Handguns, Health, and the Second Amendment
Leonard H. Glantz, J.D., and George J. Annas, J.D., M.P.H.

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The right to possess firearms by private citizens has been a major political issue in the United States since the founding of the country. James Madison, for example, argued that there need be no concern about forming a federal government because state militias would protect the people from any threat that a federal government would usurp their individual rights. In his words, "Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments [the states], to which the people are attached and by which the militia officers are . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Department of Health Law, Bioethics, and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston.



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