Amitai Etzioni and Bill Clinton
Ronald Huereca
English 125/3DDP
Critique Paper
4/11/2001
Grade: 94%
“Communitarianism, A New Threat for Gun Owners” by Christopher C. Little is about how communitarians are slowly moving up in politics in order to pass stronger gun legislation that adheres to views of Amitai Etzioni. Christopher C. Little opens up his essay stating that a new philosophical approach called communitarianism led by Amitai Etzioni is sweeping through Washington D.C., creating opposition to the political philosophy of the constitution’s framers. Little tries to get the attention of all gun control lobbyists that feel that communitarians are endangering their rights defined in the Constitution. Little tries to expose the views of Etzioni, as well as numerous politicians that he feels share communitarian views that will affect the gun control legislation in the country. Little begins to categorize communitarians as people who argue that rights must be balanced with duties, that public safety should be over liberty, and that the group should be over the individual. However, even though Etzioni’s views are the ones at question, Little accuses others of having communitarian views that are not rightly justified.
