anti abortion and pro gun?

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I can understand the debacke against being pro-life and for capital punishment.

The gun argument I don't understand.

Most people that own a gun do so to defend themselves with no intention to kill someone else. 100% of those that have an abortion take a life.

It's not hypocritical. Why not try thinking about it before making yourself look dumb?


The Doctor is out. Far out.

How is this hypocritical? Are you assuming that everyone who is anti-gun control wants to kill people? If so you're a foolish child.

First of all, the "right to bear arms" has been completely misinterpreted from it's original meaning. This right does not mean that every American citizen can own a gun. Rather, it means that the government has a right to form a militia and protect itself from danger (usually during times of war) with deadly weapons. Secondly, not every American does have the right to own a gun. Do you know the legal process of acquiring a gun? The consequences of transporting a gun across state lines? How to obtain a concealed-weapons permit? These processes are government-regulated for a reason. Guns are dangerous and too many people are injured every day by lethal weapons. However, if someone wants a gun, he/she will acquire it in whatever capacity he/she can. Thousands of guns are scattered around every city illegally. So are drugs, prostitutes, gangs, arsonists......

Fortunately those of us who are "educated liberal elites" know how to practically reason with difficult subjects. We know how to interpret historical documents and draw logical conclusions based on evidence. (Remember the scientific method?) I have personally chosen to be an "educated liberal elite," just as I have chosen not to make decisions for other women's bodies. You shouldn't mock the well-educated because you made the choice to not take that route. Or perhaps someone else made that decision for you....which is probably why you feel the need to make other's decisions for them now.

It would behoove all of the ignorant people, both liberal and conservative, to actively reflect on their own lives, and to understand the Bill of Rights before trying to create an argument for either side of the gun-control, abortion, and/or health care debates.

I'm staunchly pro-choice and basically pro-gun (I think there should be limits, but I do believe in a basic right to bear arms), and I really disagree with the original post: saying that being both pro-life and pro-gun is hypocritical is sort of akin to saying that people who are pro-gun are pro-murder, or are into celebrating instruments of violence and death - the truth is a lot more complex, I think. There are all sorts of practical reasons to support people's right to own guns. Also, I guess I just generally take issue with certain analogies and extrapolations regarding people's stance on abortion - like, the idea that if you believe X about abortion, you must believe Y about some more-or-less unrelated issue; I've heard similar logic used to make the ridiculous argument that pro-choice people shouldn't be vegetarians.

That said, I do think there is a lot of hypocrisy (or at least contradiction) with certain pro-lifers; for example, people who say that they want the government to be as small as possible turning around and advocating for a federal ban on abortions (if you believe in small government, then shouldn't it be determined on more of a community level?). Or, the big one for me: people who say that they believe in the value of every individual human life and then support foreign policy - the invasion of a foreign country based on vague half-truths, let's say - that directly leads to hundreds of thousands of deaths...