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Do Effective Non-lethal Weapons Make the Use of Firearms Unlawful and the Second Amendment Irrelevant?
Paul H. Robinson, University of Pennsylvania
The full text of this version of the working paper is not currently available online.
ABSTRACT:
Under existing American law, advances in non-lethal weapons increasingly make the use of firearms for defense unlawful and the Second Amendment of little practical significance. As the effectiveness and availability of less lethal weapons increase, the choice of a lethal firearm for protection is a choice to use more force than is necessary, in violation of existing self-defense law. At the same time, a shift to non-lethal weapons increases the frequency of situations in which a person’s use of force is authorized because defenders with non-lethal weapons are freed from the special proportionality requirements that limit the use of deadly force.
Available for download at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1154698
SUGGESTED CITATION:
Paul H. Robinson,
"Do Effective Non-lethal Weapons Make the Use of Firearms Unlawful and the Second Amendment Irrelevant?"
(July 2, 2008).
University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Scholarship at Penn Law.
Paper 233.
http://lsr.nellco.org/upenn/wps/papers/233
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