Essays in Philosophy 16 (2):247-261 (2015)
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From a European perspective the US debate about gun control is puzzling because we have no such debate: It seems obvious to us that dangerous weapons need tight control and that ‘guns’ fall under that category. I suggest that this difference occurs due to different habits that generate different attitudes and support this explanation with an analogy to the habits about knives. I conclude that it is plausible that individual knife-people or gun-people do not want tight regulatory legislation—but tight knife and gun legislation is morally obligatory anyway. We need to give up our habits for the greater good.
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Keywords | gun control regulation rights gun legislation knife legislation freedom free rider |
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DOI | 10.7710/1526-0569.1535 |
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