We develop a model of crime and self-defense that provides a rationale both for the right to bear arms and for regulating this right. It also suggests that a severe punishment for gun crime might best guarantee both the security and freedom of potential victims.
This article presents one possible alternative to rationing or banning the sale of guns to reduce crime. It offers that enacting “right-to-carry” laws to allow the carrying of concealed handguns can accomplish this task. Chaudhri and Geanakoplos (1998) in...
