Do you think that individuals have a moral right to buy, sell, and use firearms?

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1. Do you think that individuals have a moral right to buy, sell, and use firearms? If so, should this right be regulated by the government? If so, how? Or should private ownership of firearms be abolished altogether?
2. If the right to firearms is a matter of self-defense, does possession of this right depend on whether firearms are necessary for self-defense? If so, who decides when firearms are necessary and when they are not? Since almost no one lives in Antarctica, it would seem that firearms are not necessary for self-defense there. Could Antarctica be justifiably declared a “gun free zone”?
3. Is it legitimate to possess firearms for purely recreational purposes?
4. According to Locke, in the state of nature, we have the right to use deadly force not just against those who ould try to kill or attack us, but against those who would rob us as well. It is “lawful for man to kill a thief, who has not in the least hurt him, nor declared any design upon his life, any farther than by the use of force,” because there is “no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my liberty, would not when he had me in his power, take away everything else.” Is Locke right about this? Should deadly force be permissible to defend property after we leave the state of nature?
5. Most legal systems allow for a right of self-defense, but they also impose a duty to retreat. In general the duty to retreat is the duty to use force against an attack only as a last resort. But opinions differ about the nature of this duty. One interpretation holds that a victim must try to escape from any situation that might require force and then use only as much force as is necessary to escape. An opposed interpretation holds that a victim, when confronted with a situation that might require force, is permitted to hold his ground and use as much force as is necessary to incapacitate a criminal. Should there be a duty to retreat? If so, how should it be understood?