TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Openly carrying handguns for self-defense
JO  - Philosophia (Ramat-Gan, Israel)
A1  - Roberts, Rodney C.
SP  - 499
EP  - 503
VL  - 47
IS  - 2
N2  - The journal articles in the extant philosophical literature which argue in favor of carrying handguns for self-defense tend to assume that these weapons will be concealed and make no mention of carrying them openly. This paper aims to show that, since open-carry can be more effective for self-defense than concealed-carry, any argument for a moral right to carry a handgun for self-defense which relies on a claim of their effectiveness and which assumes concealed-carry, entails the moral right to carry them openly in public.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0048-3893
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11406-018-9973-x
ID  - ref1
ER  -