1. Do you feel you are better qualified to determine the conditions someone should live, what rights they are allowed to retain than the people who are living their own situation?
2. Do you believe that any product or item that causes deaths in excess of a certain number should automatically be banned or severely restricted from use by the general population?
3. As for number 2, you are likely smart enough to say no. When it comes down to it, why the difference between common products or items that kill thousands, some of which cause profound damage to society without any clear benefits, and guns as far as restricting ownership and reasonable use?
How are the arguments between 2nd amendment rights fundamentally different than reproductive rights? As a quick overview, the vast majority of abortions are based upon the irresponsible behavior of two parties, just like most STD infections. Abortions kill an entity that most likely would have survived birth. Liberals expect society to pay for their abortions without qualifications. However, abortions are justified in the case of rape, incest, and risk to mother’s life. In other words, abortions can represent either irresponsible or responsible behavior, just like gun ownership. At least gun owners do not ask society to buy their protection for them. What’s that you say? Society does pay for guns through “Excess deaths”? Perhaps. Does society pay for excessive abortions? Perhaps.
A fundamental essence to being a responsible, thinking adult is to never, ever let anyone convince you that it is ok for your rights to be infringed on. You never know when you might need a right you voted away.
