Don’t like assault weapons? Don’t buy one. This is offered as a legitimate retort to pro-lifers who seek to ban abortion… you know, the procedure which takes the life of an innocent child. So if “don’t like abortion? Then don’t have one” is a legitimate “argument” for trivializing the pro-life message, then it ought to also serve the same capacity for the anti-gun crowd.
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There you go using facts again!
Hell Yeah, man. Freedom of gun choice. It’s between me and my life-protection provider.
I live in the Northeastern part of the United States. So I’m a Yankee. Yankee family culture doesn’t involve a lot of outdoor fishing and hunting so we don’t really understand the southern cultural family value of guns. It wasn’t until I had an internship at Outdoor Life and Field and Stream Magazines that I began to understand.
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Myself being from CT I know what you mean. It is a very blue state and is in the midst of passing sweeping gun laws requiring registering magazines which can hold more than 10 rounds, and limiting magazines to 5 rounds for long guns. Also being voted on today is “eligibility certificates” to purchase long guns and ammunition. My wife thinks I’m over reacting, but I called 6 gun stores and all of them are out of their entire stock of ammunition.
As a person born and raised in the South, I don’t understand it either. All my friends in HS would go out shooting, and I’d go with them. I thought it was boring. I went hunting for the last time at 12. I saw a squirrel sitting in a tree eating a nut, and I killed it. We brought it home and ate it, but all my 12-year-old mind could think about was his children waiting for their papa squirrel to come home for supper. I knew then that the thoughts were nonsense, and I’d have no problem now, given enough hunger, killing and eating my cat. And I know that there are slaughterhouses that probably kill animals 24/7 for the meat I love to eat on my table. I just don’t see the fun in doing it myself. But… that’s just me.
I live in Michigan, peeps. If you don’t hunt or fish, you’re a putz…LOL. It’s just expected. So if you tell someone you do neither, you get looks. LOL.
The logic of this article is a little flawed. If you don’t want an abortion don’t have one. If you don’t want an “assault” rifle, don’t have one. Both the anti-abortion crowd and the gun-haters need to quit telling woman what do do with their own bodies and quit telling law abiding citizens what guns they can buy.
Daniel, No one is ever telling a woman what she can or cannot do with HER body. Our concern is with the body inside her, which is a separate human being. She has no right to kill that person.
Abortion involves more than just the woman’s body. Not only that we restrict all kinds of things people can do with their bodies.
Daniel,
You seem to suggest bodily autonomy is absolute. You’re wrong. A person cannot inject themselves with heroine, smoke a rock of crack-cocaine, sell a kidney, or kill themselves. These things are against the law – and do you know why? Because there is simply no legal right to do with your body what you wish. Society has a responsibly to limit inappropriate and immoral behavior that will have a net negative result on our civilization.
Furthermore, if a human being’s right-to-life is not protected, then there is no basis upon which to demand any other right. If one’s status as a human being, a person, is not good enough, then what is?
Your argument is very flawed.