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Because guns would never be misused if we all had one. Joel Send a noteboard - 12/08/2013 06:02:25 AM

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How can so many conservatives (or pretty much all of them since they are so partisan it is ridiculous, though the liberals are too) be both pro-life and pro-gun. This just baffles me. The best I can come up with is that they have decided it is not okay to knowingly kill someone who hasn't had a chance at life, but when you accidentally kill someone who has established a life (whether good or bad) then it isn't really a big deal. I mean, is this right, or am I just missing something?

I mean, that is how it always wherever virtually everyone has a gun, and always has, right? It is not as if Mideast and Central American residents regularly shoot each for any reason or noe. Or like the legitimacy of local governments even in the Old West was routinely determined by shoot outs.

The logic seems to be that it is OK to kill people who deserve it (and never mind how subjectively that is often determined.) Same way most "pro-life" people can defend the death penalty just as ardently. I run hot and cold on the Roman Catholic Church, but I will give it that much: When the Pope says he is pro-life, he means uniformly. I wish I could say the same for all US Catholics.

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I don't understand many things about Conservatives but one thing baffles me more than most. - 12/08/2013 05:39:06 AM 1660 Views
You are missing something. - 12/08/2013 06:01:27 AM 1022 Views
Because guns would never be misused if we all had one. - 12/08/2013 06:02:25 AM 962 Views
I think you're confusing "pro life" with "anti killing." - 12/08/2013 07:34:14 AM 1259 Views
*dingdingding*. We have a winner! in addition... - 12/08/2013 12:11:06 PM 1058 Views
Eseentially my position - 12/08/2013 12:26:19 PM 968 Views
I know right? - 12/08/2013 08:16:32 AM 1131 Views
Conversely, how can liberals be pro-abortion but anti-death penalty? - 12/08/2013 12:28:24 PM 1139 Views
In my case, because of the areas certainty exists and those where it is impossible. - 13/08/2013 04:14:15 AM 1149 Views
Well. You know where you stand. *NM* - 13/08/2013 01:50:02 PM 538 Views
At any given moment, at least. - 13/08/2013 07:01:44 PM 973 Views
*NM* - 19/08/2013 04:12:14 PM 433 Views

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