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100 Tex. L. Rev. Online 1 (2021-2022)

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Volume 100
Response
Taking Aim at Pointing Guns? Start with
Citizen's Arrest, Not Stand Your Ground: A
Reply to Joseph Blocher, Samuel W. Buell,
Jacob D. Charles, and Darrell A.H. Miller,
Pointing Guns, 99 TEXAS L. REV. 1173
(2021)
Kimberly Kessler Ferzant
Introduction
In Pointing Guns,' Joseph Blocher, Sam Buell, Jacob Charles, and Dar-
rell Miller present a disturbing challenge for criminal law and for society at
large. People keep pointing guns at each other. These gun brandishings may
be illegal assaults or legal acts of self-defense. It is hard ex post to determine
the difference, and ex ante it may be difficult even for the gun owners them-
selves to discern whether their conduct is impermissible.
t Earle Hepburn Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania. I thank
Sam Buell for discussion and Maggie Sawin for excellent research assistance.
1. Joseph Blocher, Samuel W. Buell, Jacob D. Charles & Darrell A.H. Miller, Pointing Guns,
99 TEXAS L. REV. 1173 (2021).