Citation

Hunt LH. Public Aff. Q. 2011; 25(2): 113-130.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Philosophy Documentation Center, Bowling Green State University)

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Abstract

In recent years, a number of philosophers have discussed the possibility that the widely
recognized right of self-defense includes another, more controversial right: a right to arms,
where" arms" is understood to include guns. 11 will argue in what follows that the right of self-
defense does indeed have this feature, and I will offer a new explanation of why it does so--
an explanation that, despite its novelty is, I believe, deeply rooted in common sense. In
Section 2, 1 will clarify the issue to be addressed and define a spectrum of possible …

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