In any case, in what follows, I argue (I strongly believe, soundly) that not only (i) owning, carrying, and/or using guns, but also (ii) The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution, and (iii) their necessary consequence, gun violence, are all rationally unjustified and immoral on broadly Kantian ethical grounds, and that therefore, (iv) Gun Abolitionism is rationally justified, morally right, and what we ought to do, by means of (iva) repealing The 2 nd Amendment, and then (ivb) universally banning owning, carrying, and/or using guns. [More]
Thank you! I was afraid not enough gun owners would take this seriously.
Funny, he should represent himself as an ideogical follower of Kant:
Kant called for the gradual abolition of standing armies (professional armies maintained in peacetime) and for their replacement by citizen militias.
What a hoser, eh?
Oh, and look at this:
Just send money. I have to laugh at juxtaposing these “serious” academic citations against the memory of the letter from the dean telling me to shape up or ship out.
[Via Alan Chwick]