<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Aug 30 2008, 05:51 AM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Aug 30 2008, 05:51 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->She is pro-life.
I am pro-life and not EJ.[right][snapback]87230[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Mudy, pro-life is a term with a fixed meaning. You support life for your own children. But in popular English the phrase pro-life particularly means to be anti-abortion for <i>everyone else</i> as well. That is, they tread on other people's rights. Pro-life people bomb abortion clinics, kill doctors who perform abortion and the rest.
You're not that sort, why use that term?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->As far as Gun, I don't hunt but shoot and member of NRA.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Again, not the same. You are not a trigger happy nut. You don't hunt (naturally) - you're a vegetarian besides.
They feel they have a right to shoot first, ask questions later. It's not the Right to Bear Arms that the gun-controversy in the US is about, but actually it's the right they think they have to end up shooting and killing someone without getting into trouble with the law for it (that is, they think the law should consider this as 'self-defense' even in those cases where the self actually needed no defense). Bearing arms without the right to shoot and maim/kill is meaningless, the latter is what they are actually after. Their lack of judgement/itchy-trigger-finger is what is most bothersome. And most home-turf shootout incidents turn out to have been unnecessary and provoked by neighbours (going by "Neighbours from hell" type programs on America).
Those two items (pro-life vs your position on life of kids, pushy gun-owner who likes to hunt vs you having learnt to shoot) are only very superficial similarities to your own situation - her christovalues are very different from yours.
And killing animals for sport negates any 'values' she is supposed to have; I could never identify/relate to such a person.
I am pro-life and not EJ.[right][snapback]87230[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Mudy, pro-life is a term with a fixed meaning. You support life for your own children. But in popular English the phrase pro-life particularly means to be anti-abortion for <i>everyone else</i> as well. That is, they tread on other people's rights. Pro-life people bomb abortion clinics, kill doctors who perform abortion and the rest.
You're not that sort, why use that term?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->As far as Gun, I don't hunt but shoot and member of NRA.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Again, not the same. You are not a trigger happy nut. You don't hunt (naturally) - you're a vegetarian besides.
They feel they have a right to shoot first, ask questions later. It's not the Right to Bear Arms that the gun-controversy in the US is about, but actually it's the right they think they have to end up shooting and killing someone without getting into trouble with the law for it (that is, they think the law should consider this as 'self-defense' even in those cases where the self actually needed no defense). Bearing arms without the right to shoot and maim/kill is meaningless, the latter is what they are actually after. Their lack of judgement/itchy-trigger-finger is what is most bothersome. And most home-turf shootout incidents turn out to have been unnecessary and provoked by neighbours (going by "Neighbours from hell" type programs on America).
Those two items (pro-life vs your position on life of kids, pushy gun-owner who likes to hunt vs you having learnt to shoot) are only very superficial similarities to your own situation - her christovalues are very different from yours.
And killing animals for sport negates any 'values' she is supposed to have; I could never identify/relate to such a person.