Open AccessThe Debate on Gun-Control
Author(s) -
Serena Geng
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
inquiry@queen's undergraduate research conference proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2563-8912
DOI - 10.24908/iqurcp.13294
Subject(s) - gun control , assertion , constitution , political science , safer , control (management) , law , presentation (obstetrics) , law and economics , sociology , computer security , computer science , economics , management , programming language , medicine , radiology
This presentation will begin by looking at the concept of deep disagreements and how it relates to the current debate on gun-control in America. Deep disagreements occur when people do not share the same underlying assumptions as coined by Fogelin (1985). Next, I will examine the issue of gun-control through the two main arguments of the pro-gun party: that guns make America a safer place and that the U.S. Constitution grants American citizens the right to bear arms. I will then offer anti-gun arguments against these claims as well as independent anti-gun claims in an attempt to rationally reconcile the two sides. Lastly, I will conclude with the assertion that the debate on gun-control is in fact rationally reconcilable.