Justification Of Gun Control

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Justification of Gun Control In other to justify my argument, first I will have to define the meaning of ‘’Gun control’’. Gun control can be defined as the limiting of gun ownership in the society. My argument can be supported by a very reasonable utilitarian argument. However, by restricting gun ownership, the tendency of people getting injured or killed by guns will be reduced. While denying people their rights to own guns can be taken as a harm, as this is supposed to be offset by the greater reduction in harms to the potential victims of guns (or people with guns). And so, I do accept that gun control laws can be justified morally, reason because of the utilitarian point of view. Nevertheless, a question is still asked to what extent guns

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