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Aristotle philosophy can relate to this as he says everything should be done in moderation. So we can have guns we just have to do so in moderation, this can happen with us applying more gun laws or restricting what guns people can have. We can use his good character principle to teach people how to be safe around guns and the more this happens the safer they will become reducing harm.

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The philosopher John Locke believed that by natural law, humans must be free and allowed to roam without worries, he defended the claim that humans have been subjected to a monarch. He knew that humans by nature must be allowed to be free and do what must be done, this can also include having no gun control. John’s theory relates to having now gun control since humans have all these laws and restrictions, they are being limited to what the higher power wants, hence, what the monarch wants.

“All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”

Basically saying, in terms of gun control. Give everyone guns and no one would do anything since they are so sacred of the other person

John Locke had many points of view, this can be categorized the most into categorical imperative and how if some things are illegal or not allowed, nothing should be. This can easily be recognized as the law of guns, basically saying if some guns are allowed, make them all allowed. It shouldn't matter if you are high priority or the poorest of them all, either you get to own a gun or you dont and it should go the same for everyone.

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Reduce access to weapons that can harm, instead make it so that they must take courses and have to go through different sets of training to obtain a new gun, even if it's the same one.

Take away guns in general, yes they may illegally come through our borders but for the most part most of them will be gone for good. So in the long run it's a good thing.

It's a weapon of choice, the Human handling it is the owner and as the owner, they should have the right to handle it, so a way to control gun violence is to give everyone a handgun.

“More Research. Several laws have effectively restricted federally funded research related to gun violence, as well as access to complete crime gun data”.

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“In order to protect them from themselves, they must be regulated and maintained by a government to protect their lives.”

When Immanuel Kant states this he implies that in order to protect ourselves we must give up some liberties, since complete liberty is anarchic and is overall bad for society. Therefore guns need to be maintained and regulated so that the individual can be protected.

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No people cause violence, guns are just a way for them to express themselves better and attempt to have more authority, there is nothing actually wrong with owning a gun, it's the way that humans actually use them.

“Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act imposition of a five-day waiting period for the 32 states previously not subject to such waiting periods, gun control supporters expected those states would have seen a reduction in crime, compared with the other 18 "control" states. But according to The Journal of the American Medical Association: "Our analyses provide no evidence that implementation of the Brady Act was associated with a reduction in homicide rates”.

Basically saying that even though they tried implementing gun control in 32 separate states, they saw no difference in the crime rates.

Gun control sets the bar high for people doing illegal trades or planning a shooting, this is because they enjoy crime and if it's illegal then they will do it more often, this increases the rates of crime

Not only does it increase crime rates, but it influences students in high school to perform similar tasks. Think about it, how many mass shootings can you think of right now that don't involve high school students. This is because they were negatively influenced. Gun control really does nothing.

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I believe that gun control should not be enforced since it takes away the freedom to self defend, why take away the privilege of other gun users and give it to others when everyone can just be properly trained and prepared to self defend.

A poll found that 55 percent of the public doesn't want stricter gun control.

Nikolas Cruz, a 19 year old who gunned down high school students killed at least 17 students, even though there were gun control laws implemented, he was still able to handle a gun and not only injure students, but kill 17 of them.

Mandalay Bay casino shooting is another example of a mass shooting where guns laws, even if they were there. Did not matter. With almost 1000 victims, killing 58 people. it was the largest mass shooting that took place in Las Vegas.

I think that we do have an obligation to change the status quo of gun control currently, it would mean that many active shooting events wouldn't take place.

Is what everyone would think. Look at all the shootings that took place even with gun control laws being implemented, nothing's changed.

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Cars kill more people than guns, how come we don’t have a ban on cars?

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Cars kill more people than guns, how come we don’t have a ban on cars?

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The difference between a gun and a car, is that the primary purpose of a gun is to kill, while the purpose of the car is to transport. Guns also have very little use outside of being used for killing, and items like cars provide a greater amount of utility that can be used. They produce a great amount of utility since cars are an integral part of our society and we would struggle to continue living as normal. However without guns the difference would be next to none, or even better for society.

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Banning guns and buying them back from citizens would be an altruist action, this is because we would value the welfare of others over our own personal happiness. And because handguns would be banned, and bought back from citizens you would reduce the amount of suffering for others, while impeding on your own personal gain.

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“a form of utilitarianism that says an action is right as it conforms to a rule that leads to the greatest good”

Not only a altruist can argue that it is the right thing to do so can a rule utilitarian. Having these rules of gun control will demonstrate lower violence, and no more further mass shootings. Therefore this rule implemented will cause the greatest good.

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America's gun problem, explained in 90 seconds

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We can solve gun violence by teaching gun safety and gun control more openly  and making people aware of how to handle a gun. We can also help reduce the outside factors of gun violence such as mental health. There were 464,033 total gun deaths between 1999 and 2013: 270,237 suicides (58.2% of total deaths). Over half of the gun related deaths where because of suicide. If we help the people with mental health issues the chance of them committing suicide will drop drastically. We can help people learn about the idea of categorical imperative or in other words looking at things as a universal law. If we let some people allowed to use guns then that means everyone deserves to use guns, but we should not allow everyone to kill someone. This can be applied to not giving police guns as a lot of people die from police

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We do have an obligation to change the laws on gun control as There were 464,033 total gun deaths between 1999 and 2013: But we should not completely take guns away from people. As people still have a right to enjoy guns just in a safe way.  In surveys taken on if we should change gun laws or keep them the same they are close to be being 50/50 so it's hard to make a good decision when their usually no clear majority.

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Guns do not cause violence its humans that cause violence guns just help us create violence easier.

1.28 million violent crimes in America 2017, 14,542 where causes with guns

Humans are the root cause of violence and a minority of violent crimes involve guns majority of crimes do not need guns to be committed. Saying guns cause violence is false as they are just a tool used in some cases.

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A handgun ban in the UK after a mass shooting has lead to no further school shootings.

The gun-violence rate of the UK and the overall homicide rate immediately plunged and have continued to fall, after better enforcement of the ban

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A gun buyback policy would purchase civilian firearms to reduce the amounts of civilians owning firearms.

The number of homicide incidents in Australia has fallen by 22 percent over the last 25 years, decreasing from 307 incidents in 1989-90 to 238 incidents in 2013-14.

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While gun liberalism is not the answer, there are different routes of gun control that are possible to implement. Some of these policies are gun buybacks and handgun bans;

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“Ten years after the adoption of RTC laws, violent crime is estimated to be 13 [percent to] 15 percent higher than it would have been without the RTC law,”

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Yes this is because it is supported by multiple studies, like the right to carry investigation on violence. When a state implements more right to carry laws there were increases of violent crime.

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Due to these failing policies, the way to produce the most amount of  utility is to have some sort of gun control regulations. This is since we have an obligation to make the most amount of people happy, and gun control seems to do that. This is since gun control will lead to a reduction of psychological and physical harm. Which is not comparable to the alternative of gun liberalism which seem to bolster these types of harms.

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In 2010 in America 105,000 individuals were injured or killed due to gun related violence.

73,505 of those individuals were non-fatal, meaning the victims of the gun violence suffered from psychological and physical damage.

In comparison the gun violence per capita of the United States is 12.21 per 100,000, which is comparable to countries like Uruguay and Panama, which are developing nations.

America also has the highest amount of mass shootings compared to any nation in the world.

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Currently in the United States, the country with one of the most lax gun control policies faces one of the highest gun violence per capita out of the rest of the developed nations.

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Gun control in general means that there will be regulations in place. Whether that means there will be certain policies like handgun bans, gun buybacks, background checks, and safety courses.

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Do we have an obligation to change the status quo of gun control currently?

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Do we have an obligation to change the status quo of gun control currently?