Regulation historical context

Brown, Richard Maxwell. No Duty to Retreat Violence and Values in American History and Culture. Norman University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. A study of the social values involving the appropriate use of violence from frontier days to the present. Brown emphasizes the history of the American West. He also provides an important historical context for the development of gun regulations. 

Chapter 1 provides a historical review of the evolutionary process, tracing the problems and concerns of regulators and the response of laboratory managers to those issues. The ultimate result, is the series of guidelines published as the GLPs, provided with a context and rationale. 

Reflex is viewed unilaterally as something negative in this context, not only as hasty but also as an inexpedient or even foolish reaction. However, the author who coined the term risk-regulation reflex has pointed out that it is in fact a positive, activistic reflex to which our culture owes many of its virtues, such as a historically unprecedented level of physical safety. In biology as well, every reflex has a purpose. An organism s chance of survival depends in part on its ability to react quickly to real or potential disruption. According to the... 

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