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Originally Posted by Seaver
Woah there buddy. Pro-Life means we protect the innocent. I am pro-life. I do support the right to bear arms, protecting the innocent in self-defense. I am pro-death penalty, protecting the innocent by getting rid of the psychopathic killers (though unfortunately many mistakes are made).
I dont know how you can support the release of a killer, taking away guns from a man who wants to protect his family, and kill an innocent baby.. and claim to be truely supporting life.
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Agreed with your first paragraph (on there being no inconsistency), as a foe of both abortion and the death penalty.
But I disagree with the second. There's two ways I see that such a person can genuinely claim a pro-life label:
- I don't support the government taking life where it's unnecessary. I don't view the unborn to be human life.
- I don't feel that I have the right to kill someone currently incarcerated, and I don't feel that I have the right to restrain someone from having an abortion. Thus, I also don't feel that the government has these rights.
The gun control thing's a little trickier, but I'm betting that it can be assimilated as well.
Mind you, I disagree with both positions, but consistency is certainly as possible in these positions as in yours.