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Over-heated gun rhetoric works against reform
Mar 28, 2018, 5:09 AM
Karrie Galloway, CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Council, laughs as the roar of the crowd drowns out her speech at the state Capitol, in Salt Lake City. The Utah branch of Planned Parenthood is set to ask a federal appeals court Tuesday, March 8, 2016, to reverse a judge's decision that allowed governor to cut off funding to the organization after the release of secretly recorded videos showing out-of-state employees discussing fetal tissue from abortions. (Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)
(Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)
If pro-life conservatives ever claimed that supporters of Planned Parenthood had “blood on their hands” the mainstream media would howl in protest. Why, then, do anti-gun activists who make precisely such claims about supporters of the NRA, draw widespread acclaim for their courage and idealism?
The connection between abortion and killing is obvious – even if you deny that the procedure is equivalent to murder. But there’s no connection between backing gun-rights and endorsing killing. Disagreement over specific policy proposals doesn’t mean that those on the other side want to consign our children to early death or, for that matter, to obliterate our Constitutional rights.
Republican leaders in Washington have already moved ahead with common sense enhancements in our gun regulations but hysterical and polarizing rhetoric only makes constructive reform less likely.
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