Abstract

By treating risky behavior like a communicable disease, the establishment invites government to meddle in our private lives. While persons familiar with firearms policy issues are familiar with public health as a rationale for gun prohibition, the prohibitionist arguments on guns are merely one aspect of a comprehensive public health vision of an America in desperate need to be regulated, whether it wants regulation or not. This article is reprinted, with permission, from the January 1996 issue of Reason magazine. Copyright 1995 by the Reason Foundation.

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