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- Organization: Arizona State University
- Date: Thursday, 31 Dec 1992 17:03:43 MST
- From: Shooting Club at ASU <GUNDEVIL@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <92366.170343GUNDEVIL@ASUACAD.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
- Subject: "Ethics" Courses, etc. & the R.T.K.B.A
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- We asked all our E-Mail I.D'd Philosophy Dept. faculty what they thought
- about orienting a discussion in their Ethics class to the Right to Keep
- and Bear Arms, as guaranteed by the Second Amendment.
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- We received a single response:
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- "There are two sets of issues surrounding the r.t.k.b.a. One set has to
- do with the content and status of the second ammendment; what is
- protected?, why is the constitution (or law for that matter) important?,
- is it wrong to undermine support for rights protected by the constitution?,
- etc. In philosophy, these questions fall under the description, "philosophy
- of law." We have courses in philosophy which deal with general questions
- about the law and the constitution - but are unlikely to take up the second
- amendment specifically unless you can talk a professor into it. The philos-
- ophy of law classes are usually taught by Professors X, Y or Z. (aliases)
- Given that these three have a stronger interest in the philosophy
- of law than I do, it is unlikely that I will teach this subject.
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- The second set of issues surrounding the r.t.k.b.a. is more directly
- ethical or political in nature. One might ask whether people should
- keep arms or should be permitted to keep arms or should have the right
- to keep and bear arms. Here, we ignore questions steming from the fact
- that there is a second amendment; we ignore questions about what the
- second amendment means and about the status of the constitution, etc.
- This second set of questions might be appropriate for a political
- philosophy class or an applied ethics class. I (and others) do teach
- these classes. And it might be possible to talk me into taking up
- this topic. We would have to talk about it and I would have to give
- it some thought.
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- I hope this information is of some help to you."
-
- Professor W.
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- Has anyone else tried a different tact in eliciting interest in the
- Second Amendment ? We are amazed at the indifference
- with which the Second Amendment is held here at ASU. We are not talking
- about international students, but incoming ex high-school seniors who
- supposedly had a 'Civics' class in their junior or senior year.
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- How are college level students learning firearm marksmanship, safety
- and basic Constitutional issues like this at your schools ?
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