Anti-abortion and anti-gun have a common simple logic that is indisputable at a fundamental level of logic. The creation of a unique individual logically begins at conception therefore abortion is murder. Likewise, guns are weapons designed to kill people and there would be no deaths attributable to guns if they didn't exist. Ban abortions and ban guns and two major sources of killing people would be eliminated.
Some want to ban one or the other and probably some want to ban both, while some oppose banning either. Only those totally for or totally against are logically consistent but you will never get the inconsistent groups to see it. So we refer to bigotry as being blind for a reason. On any topic where bigotry is not universal not just on guns or abortion but on bigotry generally, it is obvious to the unbiased only who the bigoted are.
Sadly, this is because generally speaking bigotry is only transcended by having some personal life experience in which one is forced to suffer from some negative consequence that are the direct result of one’s ignorant opinions.
What open minded vision capable people lack is the arrogance of certainty and the greater the ignorance the harder the fall. We cannot know what the future holds or legislate perfection. So we polarize along two lines of thought. It is the job of the state to determine the risks people are allowed to take or it’s job is to preserve the faith in the individual to determine that for himself.
The path people will choose will depend on what they unconsciously feel about themselves and project on others which will determine the level of sincerity, security, and satisfaction they find in taking on personal responsibility. It will determine whether one is a liberal or a conservative, an authoritarian or a libertarian regarding respect for peoples’ right to everything including whether to own or not own a gun.
Bigotry isn't blind without reason. The source of personal pride for the bigot is ego, the self imagined sanctity of unexamined assumptions about reality he or she will have no idea how they came by, having been inculcated by humiliation, guilt, and shame along with physical violence when all else failed to produce a conformist bot for a child.
Peel the onion of bigotry and you will discover a layer of meanness, of contempt for all who are not similarly bigoted. Their speech will be filled with put downs because they were robbed of real self respect.
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