(XLNT ?) Why should buying a gun be any easier than having an abortion?"

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67. Good thing the year is still young.

Why equate abortion rights with gun rights? If we are to make any progress in women's rights on the abortion front, making this type of argument isn't going to get us anywhere. For pro-life, pro-gun right wingers, this argument is dismissed as bullshit. They won't look at it twice. It appeals to those of us on the left who love invidious distinction and any opportunity to carp about 2nd amendment rights. Witness how many of the reply posts are about guns, not about abortion. Sheesh. They aren't even remotely the same thing, and arguing for some sort of proportionality between them is an argument for nothing at all. The choir loves the sermon though. Some of us pro-choice (in all things) lefties would like to see each choice argued on its own merits, rather than bundled with something else that we are supposed to hate and rammed down our throats. Here's to hoping that we on the left might come up with a "better" best-comment-of-the-year.