Posted on Oct 12, 2019
What Does Gun Control Have To Do With Abortion: Nothing or Perhaps Everything
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They define abortion as a "right", which it isn't, and would reduce our RIGHT to keep and bear arms to a "privilege" they can infringe at will, which it ISN'T. The 2nd Amendment is crystal-clear, and is a God-given RIGHT. They have it bass-ackwards.
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They are related issues in the most unrelated way. Both relate to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, albeit in an obscure way. In both cases, the Left devalues life, at conception, at birth, and at every age thereafter. The Right chooses to defend it at all times. That is the battleground and the Left has been winning only because the Right has been complacent and allowed them to win. For example, the Supreme Court in Roe v Wade didn't outlaw abortion. It merely declared unconstitutional those laws relating to abortion at that time. There was nothing stopping the state legislatures from returning to the subject and crafting better, more constitutionally consistent laws. They simply didn't. In all other fronts of the war of Left v Right, the Left has won primarily through the strategy of defining the terms of the debate and the Right has acquiesced. For example, the Left has hidden behind the identity of "Liberal" and the Right began using "Liberal" as a pejorative. I take offense at this primarily because I am a Liberal in the classic sense of the word and object to Leftists hiding behind me. The ideology of the Left is antithetical to everything I believe in. It's time to wake up and start fighting back. I have, but I can't do it alone.
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SGT Steve McFarland
If I understand your definition of "liberal" correctly, it means "Leave me alone", in which case I concur.
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CPT Jack Durish
SGT Steve McFarland - I am a classic liberal. I love individual liberty. But I also understand the concept of individual liberty comes with individual responsibility. Interestingly, I've been viewing the second lecture in the Hillsdale on line course, Constitution 101, and the professor reminds us that the authors of the Constitution had no illusion that self-rule would be popular with all people. They openly doubted, for example, that it would thrive in Latin America. People used to be subjects, living free from personal responsibility, might be loathe to adopt it. We saw the same thing when the slaves were freed towards the end of the Civil War. Many slaves had to be forced to leave plantations inasmuch as they had been born and lived in captivity and were ill prepared to face the prospect of fending for themselves. Obviously, they adapted as well as anybody else given the chance. But then many are lured back into servility, whites as well as blacks, by politicians who promise free stuff in exchange for power, not to the people, but to their overlords.
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SGT Steve McFarland
CPT Jack Durish I think we are pretty much on the same page Brother. Because "liberal" has been redefined to mean "socialist", I reject that label for myself; preferring to be called a "libertarian".
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