Paternalism and Risk

28	"Individuality" J.S. Mill	click on an author's name to go to her/his web page (if available)
29	"Against the Legalization of Drugs" James Q. Wilson
30	"The War on Drugs is Lost" William F. Buckley, Jr., et. al.
31	"Permissible Paternalism: Saving Smokers from Themselves" Robert E. Goodin
32	"The Liberal Basis of the Right to Bear Arms" Todd C. Hughes & Lester H. Hunt
33	"Gun Control" Hugh LaFollette

Web Resources

Paternalism and Drug Use

Center for Substance Abuse Research at the University of Maryland. Links to information on laws, treatment programs, prevention, etc.
LaFollette, Hugh. "Circumscribed Autonomy." In J. Bartkowiack and U. Narayan (eds), Having and Raising Children. Penn State Press (1998).
LaFollette, Hugh. "Mandatory Drug Testing." From Drugs, Morality, and the Law, S. Luper-Foy and C. Brown (eds) . Garland Press. [pdf]
National Review. "The War on Drugs Is Lost." The full editorial from which the section in this book is taken.
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. The chief group advocating the legalization of marijuana laws since the 1970s.
Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. The entire book from which the first selection in this section was taken. I think this is still the best general defense of liberty available.
Suber, Peter. "Paternalism" In Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopedia, Christopher B. Gray (ed.), Garland Pub. Co, 1999.
Suber, Peter. "Self-Determination and Selfhood in Recent Legal Cases." A philosophical discussion of autonomy and paternalism in the law.
Sullum, Jacob. "Myth Communication: Selling a Smoke-Free Society." A speech before the Canadian Press Club.
Tussano, Fabian. "Life, Death, and Autonomy: Why Euthanasia Should not be Controlled by the Doctors." (1993). A libertarian account of autonomy and euthanasia.
Office of Applied Studies, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Statistics on Illegal Drug Use in the United States.

Gun Control

Canadians for gun control. Advocacy group.
Center for Progressive Politics. This particular link concerns their views on gun control.
"Comparative Survey of State Firearms Laws." From the Soros Foundation.
Cook, Philip, Mark H. Moore, and Anthony A. Braga. "Gun Control." A lengthy essay on gun control from Duke's Institute of Public Policy. Includes discussion of both empirical evidence and philosophical arguments.
Handgun Control. One of the principal U.S. groups advocating more extensive gun control.
Legal status of guns. From the University of Pittsburgh Law School.
National Rifle Association. The main group advocating a serious right to bear arms.
LaFollette, Hugh. "Controlling Guns". From Criminal Justice Ethics (2001). A response to several critics of the earlier paper (included in this volume).
Watson, Peter. "For Gun Control". Radio Interview. Watson was the attorney representing the parents of children killed in an elementary school in Dunblane, SCOTLAND (1996). [RealAudio]
Wills, Gary. "To Keep and Bear Arms." The New York Review of Books, September 21, 1995.

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