• AdelleChattre
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    There is a parallel here that can inform gun control advocates around the sensitivity of the subject. A mirror to examine your advocacy in. It's reproductive rights.

    Every bit as fraught as a ‘conversation’ about criminalizing abortion, any exchange you have about gun control is layered with subtext around who the Hell are you, what business is it of yours, what do you know about me, my situation, my self-discipline and my rights, and all the rest of that.

    Casually opining on criminalizing reproductive choice is very, very much the counterpart to off-handed proposals about restricting gun rights. There's a an unthinking human failing at work in both of those cases. Recognizing that can only help you..