I am opposed to DHS (TSA, mostly). How can I be in favor of gun control?

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

33. Well, you can either choose to live with the hypocricy, or not.

For example, I personally don't like abortion.

In most circumstance, I don't feel it is the right choice and would not choose that option if we were in such a perdicament (although I would defer entirely to my wife). However, given that I am a big supporter if indivual choices and freedoms, I realized the hypocrisy of telling women what they can do with their bodies. Through my own personal support of MY freedom to make choices regarding other rights, I have grown to understand other women's choices and positions and made the choice never to stand in the way of the choice or work/vote to limit that choice... even if it's a choice I wouldn't personally make. Nowadays, when I see the prolifers marching aroud with their ghastly signs, I no longer see the issue itself... I see the limiting of freedom, invasion of privacy, mysogyny and oppression that they represent. I say, Fuck that.

So you can choose to accept the hypocrisy or not. You'll never like guns and probably never choose to own them - I get that. We are who we are and we can't lie t ourselves. Please understand that liking something is not analagous to letting other people make that choice. But at the very least, whether you continue to actively support gun control or actively support gun rights (or remain neutral) perhaps you can learn from the insight/undersanding of how shooting enthusiats feel about legislation affecting something imprtant to them. Remember that not liking guns, even not wanting anyone to own the things, is not mutually inclusive to supporting their abolishment nor mutually exclusive to allowing other to own them.


*** Edited to add (so there's no misunderstanding): Since women's rights is a hot topic her at DU, I just want to make it clear that I 100% do support a women's right to choose and to control her body. I am 100% pro-choice, for sure... even though it would not be the course of action I would ever want to take myself.