The Supreme Court's pro-gun, pro-life problem

[sinkingfeeling]

Opinion by E.J. Dionne Jr

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/01/supreme-courts-pro-gun-pro-life-problem/

Please tell me: What can the words “pro-life” possibly mean when the same people who want to constrain abortion are eager to make it easier for Americans to obtain and carry deadly weapons?

We take for granted a conservative ideology rooted not in intellectual consistency but in the politics of culture wars that hold abortion rights as an abomination but gun rights as inviolable. And we wonder why the shootings continue.

Here’s what we’re facing: conservative jurists ready to expand states’ rights when it comes to limiting or banning abortion but equally prepared to block states from enacting gun laws aimed at protecting the right of their people to live beyond their teenage years.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. A gun is "protection" but a mask is "fear". Corpses have more rights than women. . nt

[StClone]

2. The Wonders of legitimating things into knots

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Gun manufacturers wanted to free gun profit and took over the 2nd Amendment by misinterpreting it. Results were kids killing kids, and cops blowing people away because they have come to assume everyone is armed.

Abortion was a way to get the Christians (or whatever they are) to vote Republican. That worked so even more wacky "attractors" were thrown out as red meat.

White Supremacy to get those racists and xenophobes.
Tax dodges for the rubes to believe (and the toxic rich to use) they can be untaxed in prosperity.

But now those vote-getter themes are running into conflict as well as destroying the country. What to do? Double down and pus onward regardless of how obvious the conflict, no matter the schism, it creates with reality.

Because now the Cons/elites find how easy it is to take over a country when everything, and everyone, is too busy in conflict. It's all good!

[2naSalit]

3. Shock Doctrine 2.0.