Openly Carrying Handguns for Self-Defense |
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Authors: | Roberts Rodney C |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, East Carolina University, Brewster A-327, Mail Stop 562, Greenville, NC, 27858-4353, USA ; |
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Abstract: | The journal articles in the extant philosophical literature which argue in favor of carrying handguns for self-defense tend to assume that these weapons will be concealed and make no mention of carrying them openly. This paper aims to show that, since open-carry can be more effective for self-defense than concealed-carry, any argument for a moral right to carry a handgun for self-defense which relies on a claim of their effectiveness and which assumes concealed-carry, entails the moral right to carry them openly in public. |
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