"BIND ME MORE TIGHTLY STILL": VOLUNTARY RESTRAINT AGAINST GUN SUICIDE

40 Pages Posted: 9 Aug 2015 Last revised: 7 Dec 2015

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Fredrick E. Vars

University of Alabama - School of Law

Angela Selvaggio

University of Alabama - School of Law

Date Written: August 7, 2015

Abstract

Individuals ought to be able to protect themselves from gun suicide by making it more difficult for them to buy guns. This Article examines the constitutionality of two robust, voluntary restraints on gun purchase. A person who selected the first option would be able to purchase a gun only after receiving judicial approval. Under the second option, the ban on purchase would be irrevocable. The Article concludes that neither option violates the Second Amendment, but that a contrary holding is possible with respect to the irrevocable purchase ban. ' HOMER, THE ODyssEy, BOOK XII (Samuel Butler trans.) (800 B.C.E.), http://classics.mit .edu/Homer/odyssey.12.xii.htmi [https://perma.cc/K44D-USGE]. ' NAT'L CTR. FOR INJURY PREVENTION & CONTROL, CTRS. FOR DISEASE CONTROi & PREVENTION , 10 LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH BY AGE GROuP, UNrfED STATES-2013, http://www .cdc.gov/injury/images/Ic-charts/leadingcausesofdeath-by-age.group_2013-a.gif [https:// perma.cc/MDK8-K3EZ].

Keywords: Suicide, Firearms, Ulysses, Second Amendment

Suggested Citation

Vars, Fredrick E. and Selvaggio, Angela, "BIND ME MORE TIGHTLY STILL": VOLUNTARY RESTRAINT AGAINST GUN SUICIDE (August 7, 2015). 53 Harvard Journal on Legislation 671 (2016), U of Alabama Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2641139, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2641139 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2641139

Fredrick E. Vars (Contact Author)

University of Alabama - School of Law ( email )

P.O. Box 870382
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
United States

Angela Selvaggio

University of Alabama - School of Law ( email )

P.O. Box 870382
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
United States

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