TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 11 P24

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 11 P24 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | MILESTONES IN THE LAW DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA V. HELLER 217 requirement based on the predictive judgment that it would save lives. See supra page 6. That conclusion is confirmed by subsequent studies. In 1991 the . General Accounting Office found that 8 of accidental shooting deaths resulted from shots fired by children under the age of six which could have been prevented by child-proof safety locks. . Gen Accounting Office Accidental Shootings Many Deaths and Injuries Caused by Firearms Could Be Prevented 17-19 1991 http d20t9 . Nor are adults immune from the kind of accidental shootings that send 15 000 people per year to hospital emergency rooms. Karen D. Gotsch et al. CDC Surveillance Summary No. SS-2 Surveillance for Fatal and Nonfatal Firearm-Related Injuries - United States 1993-1998 2 Apr. 13 2001 http . gov mmwr pdf ss . Respondent does not argue and the majority below did not find that it is unconstitutional for the District to require trigger locks on guns under normal circumstances. . Br. 59 PA55a. Rather respondent s argument - which the panel embraced as a corollary of its invalidation of the handgun ban - is that the trigger-lock requirement is unconstitutional because it does not specifically contain a self-defense exception. According to respondent even if he lawfully possessed a handgun the District would prohibit him from unlocking it to defend himself against a sudden intruder in his home. If respondent were correct the District agrees that the law would be unreasonable. Respondent is wrong. Such an exception is fairly implied in the trigger lock requirement just as it is in many of the District s other laws. See . United States v. Bailey 444 . 394 410-11 1980 noting existence of duress and necessity defenses in common law Griffin v. United States 447 776 777 . 1982 recognizing the necessity defense in criminal cases . As Council-member Wilson noted it would have to be a very .

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