Original poster art for Gun Crazy, directed by Joseph H. Lewis (1950)
In “Gun Crazy: A Moral Argument for Gun Abolitionism,” Robert Hanna argues 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 2nd Amendment, and then (ivb) universally banning owning, carrying, and/or using guns. This argument is specific to the contemporary USA, but, just like arguments for the abolition of slavery, the argument for Gun Abolitionism smoothly generalizes to an argument for Gun Abolitionism everywhere and everywhen, and indeed also to universal Nuclear Weapons Abolitionism.
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