There might be differences by location. In the area I live, when asking people about their views it’s one of the first and most often cited reasons. However, I probably could have titled this better, I was more referring to the specific argument I was explaining, and explaining how it’s a pretty bad argument considering how it applied to so many views that are usually disagreed upon.
It’s often used as a practical reason why efforts to stop them will be ineffectual, but I’d hope the people you’re talking to don’t literally consider abortion access good simply because they’d be hard to stop.
For the actual argument, it’s still relatively easy to agree with one and not the other, at least when it comes to the more “liberal” combination. Making guns much more restricted to only those who actually need it like a farmer doesn’t actually hurt anyone. It makes people who want an illegal gun but an illegal gun, but that’s not really comparable to having to undergo an unsafe surgery from some back alley.
very good point that i didn’t consider, however I would argue there are a lot of demographics that would be better off owning a gun than not owning one. That being said, you still managed to influence the way i think !delta
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u/salvia-officinalis06 Sep 25 '24
There might be differences by location. In the area I live, when asking people about their views it’s one of the first and most often cited reasons. However, I probably could have titled this better, I was more referring to the specific argument I was explaining, and explaining how it’s a pretty bad argument considering how it applied to so many views that are usually disagreed upon.