Ethics of gun rights-
The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being... (Historian J.G.A. Pocock, describing the beliefs of the founders of the U.S.) Is it ethical to allow guns because they cause death in the wrongs hands, but is it also ethical to take away something that could potentially save someone being raped, or someone from being murdered? It is a hard ethical issue for me to argue because for me to side with one side or the other is almost to condone the other side. So lets look at one side first, lets say that we take away the majority of the guns and the gun ban goes through. Now less women have small hand guns with them to protect themselves, and lets be honest with ourselves if a criminal wants to get a gun they can get one. so the only people who are being harmed by gun control are the people who get them through the proper channels. So allowing the gun to stay can be beneficial, but on the other hand what if someone who hunts a lot goes a bit crazy and kills a person. He got his gun legally, and there is really no way he will not be caught, but he still killed a person.

"In truth, we are called upon to make life-or-death choices more often than we generally realize." The ethics of this issue are so give and take for me it's really hard to really take a side, because no matter which way it goes someone can get  harmed in the end. If I was to choose though I would say allow guns, because the odds of someone going crazy and killing someone is less than someone trying to rob or kill or rape someone. If guns can stop these crimes from occurring then I hope that the ends justify the means so to speak.


http://www.catb.org/esr/guns/gun-ethics.html- source for quotes