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Table 2. Categories of Interview Results

Opinion

A Utilitarian Approach An Aristotelian Approach

A Kantian Approach

1.

Yes because keeping guns away from certain through background checks is best for everyone

no

Yes because of moral duty to do this action out of respect for the law.

2.

no

Yes because banning guns would be good, but the habitual action of using guns has virtue and could be impractical.

no

3.

no

Yes because there is virtue is the country’s historical actions from the constitution.

no

4.

Yes because background checks will keeps guns away from crazy people, which maximizes utility for all.

no

Yes because of moral duty to do this action out of respect for the law.

5.

no

Yes because there is virtue through human habit to protect themselves.

no

6.

This is utilitarian because no guns creates a better society, where people with hatred cannot use guns to take out their anger.

no

Yes, there is a moral duty to have gun control.

7.

Yes, gun control reduces pain and maximizes pleasure.

Yes, there is virtue in the habit of police action, which people having guns reduces.

Yes, banning guns and gun control is a moral duty.

8

Yes because stricter laws will increase pleasure and reduce pain.

no

Yes, there is moral duty to have to have better background checks out of respect for the law.

9.

Yes; gun control will be best for everyone, like it is in China.

Yes, because there is virtue in the Chinese habit of not using guns, which has been good for them

Yes, there is moral duty to have gun control out of respect for the law.

10.

Yes, this economic approach will price some crazy people out of getting guns, making more pleasure for the most people.

no

Yes, making bullets more expensive to a moral duty.

· A Utilitarian Approach: Pain over pleasure. a moral action is one that maximizes utility, or happiness, for the greatest number of people.

· An Aristotelian Approach: Moral virtue primarily through habit and practice rather than through reasoning and instruction.

· A Kantian Approach: The rightness or wrongness of actions does not depend on their consequences but on whether they fulfill our duty.