“What’s more, the issue of gun rights causes almost as much screaming from the right as abortion rights, the irony being that those yelling the loudest about the right to life are usually those yelling almost as loud about their right to carry weapons that kill.”
I’ve heard this argument, in several variations (death penalty, etc.), from lefties over the years. The fundamental (no pun intended) flaw is always the same: they create the false argument that an unborn child is morally equivalent to whatever it is they are criticizing.
It is patently absurd to say that wanting legal protections for an unborn innocent is somehow equivalent with owning and (if necessary) using a firearm to protect oneself against harm to life and limb.
Whoops - truncated my last post - here’s what I meant to post:
It is patently absurd to say that wanting legal protections for an unborn innocent is somehow equivalent with a convicted 1st degree murderer facing execution. And it’s just beyond the pale to suggest owning and (if necessary) using a firearm to protect oneself against harm to life and limb is somehow in contradiction with being pro-life.
sorry for the goof, folks.
No the irony is that the other side of the argument screams about their right to kill the most innocent and helpless at the same time they scream for the most evil to be spared.
“It is patently absurd to say that wanting legal protections for an unborn innocent is somehow equivalent with owning and (if necessary) using a firearm to protect oneself against harm to life and limb.”
Well, if you think about it, both of those motives are about protecting innocents.