Thursday, December 2, 2021

Opinion | The Supreme Court’s pro-gun, pro-life problem - The Washington Post

…The disconnect between warm, life-embracing rhetoric about abortion and indifference toward the loss of innocent life furthered by our nation's uniquely permissive gun laws moved Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) to call out this moral scandal on Tuesday night. 
"I listened to my Republican colleagues come down here one after another today and talk about the sanctity of life at the very moment that moms and dads in Michigan were being told that their kids weren't coming home because they were shot at school, due to a country that has accepted gun violence, due to Republicans' fealty to the gun lobby," Murphy declared on the Senate floor. "Do not lecture us about the sanctity, the importance of life when 100 people every single day are losing their lives to guns, when kids go to school fearful that they won't return home because a classmate will turn a gun on them."…


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