In Defense of Gun Control

The gun control debate is more complex than we often acknowledge. What is often phrased as a single question -- should we have gun control -- Is actually made up of three distinct policy questions. First, who should we permit people to have guns? Second, which guns should be allowed? Thirdly, how should we regulate the acquisition, storage, and carrying of the guns people may legitimately own? To answer these questions we must decide whether (and which) people have a right to bear arms, what kind of right they have, and how stringent that right is. We must also evaluate divergent empirical claims about (a) the role of guns in causing harm, and (b) the degree to which private ownership of guns can protect innocent civilians from attacks by criminals, either in their homes or in public.Hugh LaFollette sorts through the conceptual, moral, and empirical claims to fairly assess arguments for and against serious gun control, and ultimately argues that the US needs far more gun control than we currently have in most jurisdictions.

Politics & Social Sciences

LaFollette, Hugh

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

The gun control debate is more complex than we often acknowledge. What is often phrased as a single question -- should we have gun control -- Is actually made up of three distinct policy questions. First, who should we permit people to have guns? Second, which guns should be allowed? Thirdly, how should we regulate the acquisition, storage, and carrying of the guns people may legitimately own? To answer these questions we must decide whether (and which) people have a right to bear arms, what kind of right they have, and how stringent that right is. We must also evaluate divergent empirical claims about (a) the role of guns in causing harm, and (b) the degree to which private ownership of guns can protect innocent civilians from attacks by criminals, either in their homes or in public. Hugh LaFollette sorts through the conceptual, moral, and empirical claims to fairly assess arguments for and against serious gun control, and ultimately argues that the US needs far more gun control than we currently have in most jurisdictions.

Brute Science investigates whether biomedical research using animals is, in fact, scientifically justified. Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks examine the issues in scientific terms using the models that scientists themselves use. They argue that we need to reassess our use of animals and, indeed, rethink the standard positions in the debate.

Brute Science: Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation (Philosophical Issues in Science)

Shanks, Niall

Routledge

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume is a philosophical introduction and exploration of the nature and value of personal relationships. It is an ideal text for introductory philosophy, ethics, or applied ethics courses.

Personal Relationships: Love, Identity, and Morality

Self-Help

Wiley/Blackwell

Relationships

Blackwell*publishers

The Practice of Ethics

The Practice of Ethics is an outstanding guide to the burgeoning field of applied ethics, and offers a coherent narrative that is both theoretically and pragmatically grounded for framing practical issues. <ul> <li>Discusses a broad range of contemporary issues such as racism, euthanasia, animal rights, and gun control. 
</li> <li>Argues that ethics must be put into practice in order to be effective. 
</li> <li>Draws upon relevant insights from history, psychology, sociology, law and biology, as well as philosophy. 
</li> <li>An excellent companion to LaFollette's authoritative anthology, Ethics in Practice: An Anthology, Third Edition (Blackwell, 2006).</li> </ul>

Whose Child?: Children's Rights, Parental Authority, and State Power

Aiken, William

Social Sciences

Littlefield, Adams

Brute Science:Dilemmas Animal

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In Defense of Gun Control

In Defense of Gun Control

Brute Science: Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation (Philosophical Issues in Science)

Brute Science: Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation (Philosophical Issues in Science)

Personal Relationships: Love, Identity, and Morality

Personal Relationships: Love, Identity, and Morality

The Practice of Ethics

The Practice of Ethics

Whose Child?: Children's Rights, Parental Authority, and State Power

Brute Science:Dilemmas Animal