Davis Ryan W. (Brigham Young University Usa)
Davis Ryan W. (Brigham Young University Usa) - Why It's Ok To Own A Gun - Paperback
Davis Ryan W. (Brigham Young University Usa) - Why It's Ok To Own A Gun - Paperback
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Description: Why It's OK to Own a Gun explores the right to self - defense but also looks beyond it to what gun ownership fundamentally means in American life. Guns can provide a source of meaning that doesn t depend on how much money you have or how important your job is. Guns can offer a sense of shared identity that's not hung up on intellectual credentials or ideological orthodoxy. For many responsible gun owners owning a gun is a way of positively reclaiming one's own agency in the world. It's true that guns matter to only a minority of Americans but the same could be said for many important political liberties. Like freedom of religion and freedom of expression guns should be on the list of basic rights. In fact they are: as some in America's founding generation anticipated gun rights have offered a bulwark for republican freedom. Because there is nothing morally wrong with any of these values owning a gun is OK. Key Features: Discusses the grounds of the political rights of gun ownership Connects the debate over guns with the sociology of gun ownership Describes genuinely worthwhile features of a way of life that's unfamiliar to many readers Considers empirical and normative aspects of the gun debate Thinks about individual rights in the context of state power
Title: Why It's Ok To Own A Gun
Author(s): Davis Ryan W. (Brigham Young University Usa)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367141073
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 9/29/2023
Series: Why It's OK
Category: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Description: Why It's OK to Own a Gun explores the right to self - defense but also looks beyond it to what gun ownership fundamentally means in American life. Guns can provide a source of meaning that doesn t depend on how much money you have or how important your job is. Guns can offer a sense of shared identity that's not hung up on intellectual credentials or ideological orthodoxy. For many responsible gun owners owning a gun is a way of positively reclaiming one's own agency in the world. It's true that guns matter to only a minority of Americans but the same could be said for many important political liberties. Like freedom of religion and freedom of expression guns should be on the list of basic rights. In fact they are: as some in America's founding generation anticipated gun rights have offered a bulwark for republican freedom. Because there is nothing morally wrong with any of these values owning a gun is OK. Key Features: Discusses the grounds of the political rights of gun ownership Connects the debate over guns with the sociology of gun ownership Describes genuinely worthwhile features of a way of life that's unfamiliar to many readers Considers empirical and normative aspects of the gun debate Thinks about individual rights in the context of state power
Title: Why It's Ok To Own A Gun
Author(s): Davis Ryan W. (Brigham Young University Usa)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367141073
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 9/29/2023
Series: Why It's OK
Category: Ethics & Moral Philosophy
