Ian Ayres and Fredrick E. Vars, "Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights" (Harvard UP, 2020)
In the United States, gun violence is in a state of national crisis, yet efforts to reform gun regulation face significant political and constitutional barriers. In this innovative book,\xa0Ian Ayres\xa0and\xa0Fredrick E. Vars\xa0put forward creative and practical solutions, proposing legislative reform which will reduce gun deaths.\nTheirs is a libertarian 'bottom-up' approach which seeks to empower those most at risk by allowing individuals a choice\xa0to opt in to common-sense gun regulation for themselves. At the same time, the genius of\xa0Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights\xa0(Harvard University Press, 2020)\xa0is that the proposals do not infringe the individual freedoms of gun ownership protected by the second amendment.\nAyres and Vars put forward\xa0practical solutions which, where adopted, will cause an immediate reduction in lives lost as a result of gun violence. Their work is empirically grounded and provides a roadmap for legislators and policy makers who wish to keep people safe by reducing gun deaths.\nIan Ayres is the William K. Townsend Professor of Law and Professor of Management at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including the New York Times bestseller\xa0Super Crunchers. He is a contributor to Forbes, NPR's Marketplace, and the New York Times.\nFredrick E. Vars is the Ira Drayton Pruitt, Sr., Professor of Law at the University of Alabama, where he specializes in mental health law. He works with numerous suicide-prevention organizations and is a member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Gun Violence.\nJane Richards is in the final stages of completing her doctoral thesis on the application of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to the insanity defence and its disposition orders at the University of Hong Kong. You can find her on twitter where she follows all things related to human rights and Hong Kong politics @JaneRichardsHK\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law