Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Boys Attack Cyclist Who Fights Back, Kills 1 [View all]TPaine7
(4,286 posts)No, a person does not have the onus to reduce the risk of harm if they want to avoid harm due to felonious attacks by others when exercising their rights.
* Cartoonists do not have the onus to not make or publish pictures of Mohammed to avoid being attacked by religious lunatics.
* Women do not have the onus to not wear revealing (but legal) clothing around biker gangs in order to avoid being raped.
* Jews do not have the onus to avoid living in an area after skinheads move into the neighborhood.
* People do not have the onus not to express liberal ideas because they live in red states.
* Gays to not have the onus not to hold hands in public in the Bible Belt.
It would be better that all the fanatics who would forcefully restrain freedom of expression, all the bikers who would rape women, all the skinheads who would attack Jews, all the lunatics who would attack someone for their political beliefs and all the violent gay bashers be stopped--and if that entails their deaths, so be it--than that there be an "onus" placed on free people in order to protect felons.
Riddle me this, iverglas: if a woman can't get an abortion without being exposed to risk from anti-abortionists, is the onus on her to avoid the risk? What if the only realistic options are to get an abortion that involves that risk or carry the child to term?
What if she "{chooses} not to avoid the risk of harm"--if she chooses to get the abortion? What if someone attacks her because she insists on getting an abortion and in the course of stopping their potentially lethal attack she kills them? Who "gets to say a word if {she kills} somebody when the risk {she} could have avoided materializes"? Pat Robertson?
Would you accept this line of argument in a case involving a woman who chose to wear a short skirt? A tight top? No bra? Would this line of argument apply to any thing else, or is this a special rule made up to suppress gun rights?