Eugene Volokh
American legal scholar; Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA School of Law. Founded The Volokh Conspiracy blog in 2002, hosted at Reason since 2017, where he writes on free speech, guns and the courts.
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Knowing the identities of the people involved in this case could help third parties assess the reasonableness of a school policy that is a topic of national public debate.
If anything, there are weighty interests in full disclosure because knowing the identities of the people involved in this case could help third parties assess the reasonableness or unreasonableness of a school policy that has become a topic of public debate across the nation.
reason.comSaid 20 Oct 2026This on korrents
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Carrying a gun into a no-guns zone to stop an apparent in-progress school shooting makes for an extraordinarily clear case for the choice-of-evils defense.
And while in some situations the balancing test in the necessity defense can be vaguer than the somewhat more precise terms of the self-defense defense, carrying a gun into a no-guns zone in order to stop an apparent in-progress school shooting makes for an extraordinarily clear case for the defense.
reason.comSaid 20 Oct 2026This on korrents
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Knowing the identities of the people involved in this case could help third parties assess the reasonableness of a school policy that is a topic of national public debate.
If anything, there are weighty interests in full disclosure because knowing the identities of the people involved in this case could help third parties assess the reasonableness or unreasonableness of a school policy that has become a topic of public debate across the nation.
The Volokh Conspiracy Said 20 Oct 2026
Carrying a gun into a no-guns zone to stop an apparent in-progress school shooting makes for an extraordinarily clear case for the choice-of-evils defense.
And while in some situations the balancing test in the necessity defense can be vaguer than the somewhat more precise terms of the self-defense defense, carrying a gun into a no-guns zone in order to stop an apparent in-progress school shooting makes for an extraordinarily clear case for the defense.
The Volokh Conspiracy Said 20 Oct 2026
The choice-of-evils defense is not foolish to apply to carrying a gun onto school property when necessary to stop an in-progress school shooting, even if the general law is considered foolish.
But even if you think the Oregon law (coupled with Bend's policy) is foolish in generally criminalizing gun licensees' carrying a gun onto school property, it's not so foolish as to criminalizing their carrying a gun onto school property when necessary to stop an in-progress school shooting.
The Volokh Conspiracy Said 20 Oct 2026
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Conservative counts of civilians using guns to stop multiple shooters in 2025 appear to be at least a dozen incidents.
Still, thanks to a Crime Prevention Research Center spreadsheet, I can say that in 2025 there appeared to have been at least a dozen such incidents.
The Volokh Conspiracy Said 19 Oct 2026
Conservative counts for defensive gun use incidents in 2020-2024 are likely comparable to the count for 2025.
I expect that conservative counts for those years would likewise be comparable to my count for 2025.
The Volokh Conspiracy Said 19 Oct 2026
Multiple shootings are sometimes stopped by armed civilians.
But it is a reminder that multiple shootings are indeed sometimes (and not that rarely) stopped by good guys with guns.
The Volokh Conspiracy Said 19 Oct 2026
The United States is both a republic and a democracy.
The United States is not a direct democracy, in the sense of a country in which laws (and other government decisions) are made predominantly by majority vote. Some lawmaking is done this way, on the state and local levels, but it's only a tiny fraction of all lawmaking. But we are a representative democracy, which is a form of democracy.
The Volokh Conspiracy Said 14 Oct 2026
The distinction between a republic and a democracy is a false dichotomy.
I often hear people argue (often quite militantly) that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. But that's a false dichotomy.
The Volokh Conspiracy Said 14 Oct 2026
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Site Eugene Volokh (UCLA) His personal page: bio, articles and textbooks on First Amendment law.
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Blog Eugene Volokh at the Volokh Conspiracy His posts on free speech, Second Amendment and court decisions. Has a per-author feed.
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