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Showing Original Post only (View all)Judge To Conservatives Who Tried Closing Abortion Clinics: What If We Did That To Gun Stores? [View all]
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/08/05/judge-to-conservatives-who-want-to-close-abortion-clinics-what-if-we-did-the-same-thing-for-gun-stores/Taking it further, Thompson presents a thought experiment which may be my new favorite way of countering anti-abortion rhetoric from this day forward. It goes like this:
What if, instead of abortion, the issue were gun sales. Lets say in an effort to bypass the Constitution and curb gun ownership, the state or federal government passed a law that effectively shut down every gun store in the state but two.
The defenders of this law would be called upon to do a heck of a lot of explaining and rightly so in the face of an effect so severe, Thompson points out. Similarly, in this case, so long as the Supreme Court continues to recognize a constitutional right to choose to terminate a pregnancy, any regulation that would, in effect, restrict the exercise of that right to only Huntsville and Tuscaloosa should be subject to the same skepticism.
Remember, even the discussion about gun control is typically met with grandiose, overblown rhetoric about governmental tyranny and something, something cold, dead, hands. The idea that conservatives would allow their gun shops to be closed down simply because gun control activists dont agree with their ownership of them is unthinkable.
What if, instead of abortion, the issue were gun sales. Lets say in an effort to bypass the Constitution and curb gun ownership, the state or federal government passed a law that effectively shut down every gun store in the state but two.
The defenders of this law would be called upon to do a heck of a lot of explaining and rightly so in the face of an effect so severe, Thompson points out. Similarly, in this case, so long as the Supreme Court continues to recognize a constitutional right to choose to terminate a pregnancy, any regulation that would, in effect, restrict the exercise of that right to only Huntsville and Tuscaloosa should be subject to the same skepticism.
Remember, even the discussion about gun control is typically met with grandiose, overblown rhetoric about governmental tyranny and something, something cold, dead, hands. The idea that conservatives would allow their gun shops to be closed down simply because gun control activists dont agree with their ownership of them is unthinkable.
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Judge To Conservatives Who Tried Closing Abortion Clinics: What If We Did That To Gun Stores? [View all]
KamaAina
Aug 2015
OP
Logic will be the thing that finally ends the gun nut madness and gun terrorism in America.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#3
I get it, the practical results of the illogical argument of the pro-birth, anti-life crowd is being put in a context a gun lover can
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#14
Either you are not looking in the right places or you appear unavailable or you
merrily
Aug 2015
#39
Seems a large chunk of anti-women's freedom to choose folks are gun-lovers too.
Dont call me Shirley
Aug 2015
#22
Actually, I made it first-over a year ago: "A judge in Alabama gets it about abortion and guns"
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#73
It's not 'easily defeated' imho ... the INDIVIDUAL right was established by Heller in like 2005 ...
brett_jv
Aug 2015
#67
Ask them why they choose to ignore the "well regulated militia" part of the Second Amendment.
NBachers
Aug 2015
#55
Little by little you can see that the pushback is gaining traction with more and more
A Simple Game
Aug 2015
#48
Those that think this can be used against guns haven't read the decision
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#61
I believe the idea is not to use this "meme" against the ownership of guns as much as it...
NeoGreen
Aug 2015
#65
The point was, one set of restrictions is just as odious as another
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#72