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Pro-life and pro-gun is not a contradiction
washingtonexaminer.com/ ^ | 1/22/2016 | Matt Bowman

Posted on 01/24/2016 8:12:10 AM PST by rktman

One might imagine that if you are pro-life you should also support gun control.

Guns extinguish life, after all.

That intuition leads many on the Left to criticize Republican pro-lifers who support Second Amendment rights.

Both issues are volatile this election year. If an inconsistency exists, though, it exists no less for Democrats.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; guncontrol
In the one way boulevard of the PC world, this is contradictory. So if you're pro-choice, how can you be anti 2nd? I know, topsy turvey BS.
1 posted on 01/24/2016 8:12:11 AM PST by rktman
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One might imagine that if you are pro-life you should also support gun control. Guns extinguish life, after all.

So much for critical thinking.

I can't figure out whether liberals are more evil, or more stupid.

2 posted on 01/24/2016 8:15:47 AM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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Pro-gun is pro-life.

What could be more logically pro-life than protecting your life and the lives of your family?


3 posted on 01/24/2016 8:16:39 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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the guns walking around here are pretty tough. they have no regard for life. always shooting themselves off /s


4 posted on 01/24/2016 8:17:02 AM PST by dp0622
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Pro-life and pro-gun is not a contradiction

How else are you going to defend life? Kumbaya?

5 posted on 01/24/2016 8:17:11 AM PST by IncPen (There is not one single patriot in Washington, DC.)
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Nor is pro-death penalty.

Liberals are obtuse and lack an understanding of evil.


6 posted on 01/24/2016 8:19:02 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: IncPen

Compassion and a $15/hr job opportunity.


7 posted on 01/24/2016 8:20:45 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Liberals make the same argument about the death penalty.

How can you be pro-life and for the death penalty?

Simple. One is about killing an innocent child and the other is about punishing a dangerous convicted murderer.

How can you be pro-abortion and against the death penalty? Do you only believe in killing innocent children?


8 posted on 01/24/2016 8:23:33 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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In their view, it’s only a tissue mass.


9 posted on 01/24/2016 8:28:45 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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The last seven years has seen the biggest firearms buying splurge ever seen or recorded. The people who bought these ten’s of millions EXTRA guns aren’t all repubbies and didn’t buy them just to have their firearms ownership INFRINGED, so I hope all the dims keep campaigning on who is the biggest gun grabber.


10 posted on 01/24/2016 8:29:22 AM PST by umgud
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What do they think they are made of?


11 posted on 01/24/2016 8:34:32 AM PST by dp0622
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Purty sure some dems acquired firearms also.


12 posted on 01/24/2016 8:35:06 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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I’ll never accept how someone thinks because you’re against killing babies you must be against killing someone trying to kill or rape you.


13 posted on 01/24/2016 8:36:51 AM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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American pseudo-Catholics did the same thing with abortion and the death penalty; pathetic.


14 posted on 01/24/2016 8:52:18 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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Pro INNOCENT life.

The Bible condemned the murderer long before the Law was given to Moses. See Genesis 9:5-6:

“And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.

Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.”


15 posted on 01/24/2016 8:58:54 AM PST by nonsporting
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Pro abortion and anti capital punishment is a much greater contradiction. Killing babies is OK but executing killers is a heinous act.


16 posted on 01/24/2016 10:31:19 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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Sure, i’m pro-life.
Sure, I’m pro-gun.

It’s MY life, and if the only way to DEFEND MY LIFE is by the use of a GUN, so be it!


17 posted on 01/24/2016 10:48:52 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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That doesn’t make any sense.
The whole point of owning a gun is to protect life, you own and your families


18 posted on 01/24/2016 12:53:59 PM PST by Toughluck_freeper
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