TY - JOUR PY - 2012// TI - The good, the bad and the ugly a 50-state survey exploring federal and state firearm regulations related to mental health JO - Journal of legal medicine (TF) A1 - Sterzer, Jason SP - 171 EP - 199 VL - 33 IS - 1 N2 - The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree, as is the case in the British government. This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty.... The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Whenever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.(1)

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LA - en SN - 0194-7648 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01947648.2012.657993 ID - ref1 ER -