Gun control in the United States: ethical perspectives for the twenty-first century.
The current author will explore the way we should think about the ethical implications of gun control in the United States today. The generating pedagogy will be: (1) an explication of worldview perspectives, personal and community as per the author's recently published writings; (2) a discussion of the worldviews of both sides of the gun control debate; (3) a critical appraisal of the positions of each side; and (4) some suggestions about a future that is without ordinary citizen ownership of guns. The author argues that based on an ethical rights model of analysis, an ordinary citizen's right to bear arms is outweighed by other competing rights claims.
Boylan
Michael
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Department of Philosophy, Marymount University, Arlington, VA 22207, USA. mboylan@phoenix.marymount.edu
D001290:Attitude; D004989:Ethics; D005389:Firearms / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D012945:Social Values; D014481:United States